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Cubans are proud of their revolutionary achievements in health and education, but they occasionally grumble about their dependence on the U.S.S.R. The Castro regime has been moving away from pure Communism and flirting with supply-and-demand economics. There are new incentive programs for workers and a plan to pay interest on small savings accounts. Castro has also dropped hints in recent months about resuming trade with the U S which had been an overpowering force in the Cuban economy until Washington imposed a total embargo in the early 1960s. Washington's reply: no deal unless Cuba withdraws...
Absence had not made the congressional heart any fonder of the Carter energy program. The more members scrutinized it, the less they seemed to like it. Flaws were beginning to show through the rhetoric. Especially vulnerable was the $88 billion synthetic fuel plan. The House had already passed a much reduced version of the President's ambitious proposal, and Senator Scoop Jackson, chairman of the Energy Committee, was readying a bill of his own. "We want to get a real beginning on synthetic fuels," Jackson said. "There's a coalition forming of strong fiscal conservatives who say this...
...President's desk by Oct. 1. The White House let it be known that it was willing to compromise. The $146 billion in revenues anticipated from the tax would not all have to go to mass transportation or to relief for low-income groups, as originally planned. Some of the money, suggested the White House, could be shifted to measures that would encourage conservation, or even to cutting Social Security taxes. "Popular support for the tax simply is not being translated into support for it in the Senate," complained a top Administration official. "Without the windfall profits tax, there...
...Begin and Sadat still have divergent interpretations of the Camp David accords. Begin's autonomy plan for the Palestinian inhabitants of the occupied territories would restrict the authority of the elected Palestinian council to purely administrative matters. The Egyptians believe the agreement called for broader powers for the Palestinians, including legislative and judicial authority. The Egyptians seem to be losing hope of convincing the Palestinians that they should join the negotiations; but they firmly believe that unless some do, the talks cannot succeed...
This year they plan only minor revisions, unrelated to the Core requirements. Wilson explains that his course already fits the Core. Following the Core guidelines' dictates that Social Analysis courses be organized around a central theme, Wilson's course will ask, Why does a certain person commit a crime...