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WASHINGTON--A draft of President Carter's proposed health plan provides health care for individuals not now covered by private benefit plans, sources said yesterday...
...high unemployment, or unworkable mandatory government controls." But moralizing won't stop inflation, so Carter will probably try to summon up the preacher's other techniques of salvation--gentle persuasion and cajolery--talents the President did not use to great effect in the last session of Congress. Before his plan has a chance of success, he will have to convince Congress to accept his "lean and austere" budget, Labor to hold down its wage demands, and Big Business to limit its price hikes. Along with miscellaneous other programs, these are the steps that Carter sees as necessary to curb rising...
...FANFARE about inflation being public enemy number one, Carter's target inflation rate for 1980 of 6.3 per cent is shockingly modest, especially in light of the sacrifices in public welfare his plan would require. In real terms, his proposed budget would reduce the appropriations for social services by about 15 billion dollars while allowing the nation's arms arsenal to continue growing. Though some cuts of redundant or unnecessary programs may be justified, the proposed slashing of federal jobs programs, which would wipe out over 150,000 jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and practically eradicate...
...reduced to hope. Not so much for myself, because my future is not so important. I am not a revolutionary, nor a poet; I will not change the world. I simply plan to stay in it for a while and--comfortable in the thought--soon be gone. But Harvard will be here long after that, still forging the community of educated men and women, still taking in the minds of its students and bending them to face a world of forlorn ideals and dismal sciences. My hope, and my prayer, is that it will at least leave them their souls...
Many of the fellows plan to spend the next four months reflecting on their own involvement in politics, as well as conducting their teaching and writing work. "This place will give me a chance to relax and put into perspective my work at Common Cause," said Bruce Adams, director of Issue Development at Common Cause, a "clean government" group based in Washington...