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...lost and purposeless people. To a degree, those conditions exist in most industrialized nations. But in the U.S. they are especially intense and combined with particularly American elements that have almost become cliches: the loosening of many moral and social restraints on all kinds of behavior in an increasingly lax society; the decline of tradition and the breakdown of the family; the mobility of American life that so often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still lingering love affair with guns?the litany can go on and on. But finally the problem...
...Lax Administration. Returning north later in the week to the state he governed for 16 years, Rockefeller was less cordially received by a commission investigating the widespread scandal involving the swindling and mistreatment of patients in nursing homes. At the end of nearly five hours of questioning, Rocky managed to escape any personal culpability in the scandal, but he stood accused of lax administration of medical-care programs when he was Governor...
...Lax Guards. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron, Speer explained the background in which the book was written, stressing that his confinement in Spandau had a greater personal meaning for him than his important role in Nazi Germany. One reason is that the Nazi era lasted only twelve years, while Speer remained jailed in Spandau until 1966-a full 20 years. Originally built to house about 600 convicts, the mammoth, rust-red prison was requisitioned after World War II by the Allies for the sole purpose of locking up Speer and six other senior Nazi officials...
Because he was never very close to his fellow inmates ("No one trusted anyone else"), Speer sought some kind of relationship with the guards. "They were not vicious," he told TIME's Byron. "Except for the Russians, they tended to be lax about minor infractions of the rules. At first, prison rules were aimed at keeping us in the dark regarding political developments. If it were not for the guards, for instance, we would never have known that the Russians had blockaded Berlin and that an airlift was under way." Later, however, the prisoners were allowed to read newspapers...
They can?and do?disrupt currency markets by shifting huge sums from, say, dollars into Deutsche Marks. They can concentrate production in countries where tax and pollution laws are most lax, and foil national economic objectives by shifting their operations around from nation to nation. For example, multinationals poured considerable money into Germany, and hurt that country's efforts to battle inflation by holding down the money supply. Many executives of multinational corporations would welcome an international code of conduct. Capitalist countries would help their economies operate more smoothly if they agreed to treaties harmonizing the tax, pollution and accounting...