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Economically, the easiest way to bring meat prices down would be to import more inexpensive meat. Politically, though, that course is barred by two sets of quotas: mandatory quotas provided by a law passed in 1964, and "voluntary" quotas added in 1968 to avoid triggering the mandatory quotas. The voluntary quotas are reviewed yearly, and two years ago they were relaxed slightly in order to slow an earlier rise in meat prices. Agriculture Department officials conducting this year's review, however, make it clear that any further relaxation in this presidential election year will have to be decided...
...which seem to provide neither hope nor comfort. Blanche arrives for her summer's stay with her sister and her sister's husband by riding a streetcar named Desire, transfering to one called Cemeteries and getting off at Elysian Fields--directions which Blanche recites with some appreciation of their import and which put pretty well up front precisely what point in her life she has reached. Unable to accept implication in the death of her husband (she says deliberate cruelty is the one thing she cannot forgive and of which she has never been guilty...
...took even less courage to make his latest movie, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a film about the repression of Italian Jews prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Although a fine study in nostalgia, its import lies rather in having created an elegant and moving recapitulation of this shameful episode in Italy's history--thirty years too late. Painful though it may be for a man like De Sica to shoulder the burden of his country's guilt in making such an apology, the balance against sentimental but ineffective nostalgia is only preserved by the counter...
...Crop prices (principally for coffee, cotton and tea) have not kept pace with inflationary living costs, and last year Uganda's foreign exchange reserves fell from $44.8 million to $25 million. To help the faltering economy, Amin was forced to borrow ?10 million from Britain and impose strict import and trade controls...
...gladly took up the cause of almost any businessman who was unhappy with Washington. As an influential Cabinet member, Stans argued strongly against federal adoption of a no-fault auto-insurance plan, against the ban on DDT and against a presidential commission's advice to junk the oil-import quota system. He also led the battle to impose trade quotas on foreign-made textiles. His job as keeper of the party war chest will undoubtedly include reminding many favored industrial leaders of their debt...