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...among other disappointments, Americans by and large feel worse off today than they did a year ago. Nor will Kahn's profile win awards for methodology. Not one of the dozen or so "typical" Americans was quoted, say, while shuffling along an unemployment line. And some readers may quarrel with the Panglossian assessment of the California raisin farmer who beams: "We're bound to end up way ahead of where we were before...
...swift rise and fall of Fidrych puts some in mind of Mexican Phenomenon Fernando Valenzuela, provider of about the only sweet note last season and about the only discordant one now. But even Fernando's holdout with Los Angeles has been kept a fairly light quarrel. Says Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda: "All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was 'million.' " Softer, Lasorda says: "He was a big hero last year, but people are beginning to turn on him. It could hurt...
...Governors had no quarrel with Washington's willingness to finance all of Medicaid, but, by a vote of 36 to 5, they rejected the idea that the states should assume the AFDC and food stamp burden. This was in keeping with the traditional position of the National Governors Association that income-support programs for the poor are logically a national responsibility. Instead, the Governors offered to accept as state responsibilities a wide variety of other programs, including education, transportation, child nutrition and criminal justice. Total cost of those programs: about $31 billion...
...using its power of disclosure to influence corporate decisions. There was concern after Watergate at what appeared to be the unbridled power of corporate management." But Shad wants to back away from enforcement that he believes is "clearly beyond the basic mandate of the commission." Although few will quarrel with his avowed goal of cutting back Government regulations, decisions like that in the Citicorp case can give the impression that the SEC has greatly relaxed the standards for corporate ethics. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...divorce has long been in the making. The independent-minded Italians have been at odds with the Kremlin ever since they criticized the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The quarrel escalated into open conflict last Dec. 30, when the P.C.I., headed by Enrico Berlinguer, published a resolution denouncing the imposition of martial law in Poland and declaring Soviet-style Communism to be an "exhausted" force. Last week, after the P.C.I.'s Central Committee overwhelmingly approved that resolution, the Soviet party daily Pravda unleashed an attack of almost unprecedented ferocity...