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...ultrarestrictive provisions of the new Ethics in Government law [Jan. 26] are not "worth the price." At the beginning of World War II, executives in the War Production Board were not permitted to have any official relationship with their own industries. Inefficiency was rampant. The U.S. appeared to be losing the war. Then the rules were changed, and men were given responsibilities related to their prior experience. Thereafter, war production went very well, and our forces were supplied with the material required for victory...
...their own country and they assume that people abroad find their governments similarly unresponsive to their political wishes. While they realize that life elsewhere is generally "freer" than in the Soviet Union, they are highly influenced by propaganda which tells them that in the West crime is so rampant that merely being on the street is an invitation to murder. To a Russian the very term "freedom" implies a perjorative loss of control...
...interests and agriculture. Though Republicans generally blame most of the economy's present difficulties on Democratic folly, Stockman believes that one of the most damaging moves of the past decade was Nixon's decision in 1971 to end gold convertibility. Says Stockman: "That created the conditions for rampant production of paper money all around the world...
...hounded and exposed by a well armed array of waste-watchers from Ralph Nader to Jack Anderson to vindictive congressional committees. The public sector is available and accountable to a scruitinizing, sensitive, cost-conscious public. But what of the red tape and bureaucratic mismanagement in the private sector, as rampant if less detectable than public fraud? Who blows the whistle on individual, private rip-offs of the unwary customer...
China's political leaders view the nation's young people as the source of revolutionary strength. Much of the Party's propaganda is directed toward the young, since the elderly tend to cling to their traditional, "feudal" beliefs. During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, the older youths ran rampant as Red Guards, looting and terrorizing the more conservative citizens in their attacks on old customs and beliefs. To many Western observers, it seemed for a long time that the Communist Chinese were engaged in an almost inhuman remolding of their children in their attempt to rebuild the nation...