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...biggest obstacle to interdiction, of course, is the simple length of the coastline and border. Both are so honeycombed with hiding places that searching for incoming drugs will always be a needle-in-a-haystack operation. Though seizures are way up, that is probably an index to the greater volume of smuggling rather than the efficiency of interception. The Government, says Lee Dogoloff, once drug adviser to President Jimmy Carter, "has been interdicting the same 10% since Harry Anslinger," who was appointed U.S. Narcotics Commissioner in 1930. Operation Alliance may increase the percentage, but the greatest optimists have no hope...
...reason: many economists now doubt that further cuts in interest rates will give much of a boost to the economy, which was muddling along at only a .6% annual clip in the second quarter. Another sign of the economy's mixed prospects came with the release of the latest index of leading economic indicators, the government's chief forecasting gauge. The index rose by a sharp 1.1% in July, but that gain was balanced by a revision of June figures that showed a decline of .4% rather than the previously reported increase...
...deficit had placed the economy in "difficult and dangerous" circumstances. It has undoubtedly caused much of the recent slowdown in growth: the economy expanded at a 1.1% annual rate between April and June, down from a 3.8% rate the previous quarter. The Commerce Department reported last week that the index of leading economic indicators, a barometer of future growth, increased by a modest 1.3% in June. The unemployment picture, though, improved somewhat. The number of jobless Americans fell from 7.1% to 6.9% of the population...
...that tried to put the brakes on the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s. Shultz, reading between the lines, said he "hated to hear a U.S. Senator call for violence." Biden erupted, his voice reaching heights of calculated fury. Jabbing the manuscript of Shultz's testimony with his index finger, he shouted, "I'm ashamed of this country that puts out a policy like this that says nothing, nothing! It says, 'Continue the same.' We put no timetable on it. We make no specific demands. We don't set it down. I'm ashamed that's our policy. That...
...bright spot in the global economic picture remains the squelching of inflation. In the U.S., the consumer price index will rise only 1.5% this year, accelerating slightly to 3.5% in 1987. Western Europe's 1986 inflation rate will be 2.8%, and that figure will stay about the same next year. Inflation will increase only modestly during 1987 in the Pacific region, with the rate of price increases ranging from 1% in Japan to 7% in the Philippines...