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...What worries me is that some people seem to think of my eight years as Premier as eight years of dictatorship. But I think we have done well in following a policy of peace. All this, however-our economic growth, the return of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands-we owe to our good relations with the U.S. With the Soviets, we have to have arguments even over such things as salmon fishing. My greatest regret is that our opposition has never understood this...
...governmental units follow their present course, they will respond partly by further raising some taxes, partly by rejecting some badly needed programs, and largely by plunging deeper into debt. That is a self-defeating course. Keynesian economists have oversold the idea that public debt does not hurt because "we owe it to ourselves." Interest on the debt?currently $12 billion a year for the Federal Government ?devours tax dollars that are urgently needed for other purposes...
Moos said that SDS is also investigating the legitimacy of the debts that Epps says they owe the University. Epps said last week that these debts amount to "approximately $1000." These debts must be paid off before a permit will be granted, he added...
...price increases that ignited last December's violence have been rescinded, and wages have increased an average 5%. In an effort to ease the country's tensions, Gierek is seeking an accommodation with the Catholic Church, to which 95% of Poland's 32.5 million people owe at least nominal allegiance. He has freed the farmers, who constitute half the labor force, from stultifying government controls...
...comment on his life begins with a kind of oral will: "Larry, you can have my shaver. Big deal. Oh brother, this is terrible . . . I give Dave my stereo and tapes." Then he settles his debts: "I got Dick's money on the table, ten bucks that I owe him, and got my settlement with Dave here on the table." Then he tries in vain to explain his imminent suicide: "Well actually, the real reason is that I really don't know...