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TIME'S article "Socialism: Trials and Errors" [March 13] presents an excellent defense for our present socioeconomic system against socialism. No nation, however, has adopted socialism as a result of victories in debates on the subject. Throughout history, the basic human rights have been the opportunity to obtain "food, shelter and clothing." When the existing system in a nation becomes unable to sustain those rights adequately for the majority of the people, history shows, some form of socialism inevitably has followed...
...committee's first two drafts of an urban policy were rejected by the White House as poorly put together and too costly (about $10 billion a year). Harris and her colleagues fell so far behind schedule that Carter could not obtain an estimate for his fiscal 1979 budget. As a result, the Office of Management and Budget came up with its own-$3.9 billion -which was also rejected. Furious at the foulups. Carter told Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to whip the policy into shape. Within two months, he and Harris produced a ten-page outline that Carter liked...
...bitter postmortem. Mitterrand blamed the left's defeat on the Communists, who "did not hesitate to add their unceasing and violent attacks [against the Socialists] to those of the right." Later, in a closed session of his party's executive committee, he declared: "We did not obtain as many votes as the public opinion polls had predicted because Georges Marchais frightened the undecided voters who were getting ready to cast their ballots for us. They asked themselves how we could govern with the Communists...
Library officials are instituting the new procedure on an experimental basis in order to obtain samples of the hand-writings of the people using the library, which is the main library of the Harvard Divinity School, Woodbury said, adding that library officials will compare the list of signatures to those on the threatening notes...
...million a year, paid by shipping companies to union officials to buy labor peace. The FBI also infiltrated waterfront racketeers in New York at such a level that one undercover man became a courier for payoffs from shipping companies to the union. Justice Department lawyers expect to obtain indictments against both union officials and shippers starting next month...