Word: reform
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Carter keeps promising a more detailed analysis of his tax program. He calls for the elimination of most income tax deductions, which in turn would permit a general lowering of tax withholding rates. This sensible reform has long been advocated by some liberal economists. But in response to a question put by an aide to Henry Jackson at a forum in Boston last week, Carter said that deductions for home mortgages should also be cast out. Sure enough, Scoop Jackson thundered two days later: "What Carter is threatening, in actuality, is the destruction of the working-and middle-class American...
Orne was followed to the stand by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, 49, a Yale psychiatry professor, prolific author (Revolutionary Immortality, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism) and, like West, one of the nation's outstanding experts on mind control. Lifton interviewed hundreds of P.O.W.s after the Korean War, as well as dozens of victims of Chinese Communist brainwashing; he also conducted a detailed study of survivors of the Hiroshima holocaust...
Leak Insurance. The reporter's case was just one element in a debate that continued to swirl around a perennial issue: the relationship of reporters, leaks and security. The Schorr matter reached the ethics committee almost simultaneously with the arrival on Capitol Hill of the new intelligence reform proposals announced by President Ford (TIME, March 1). The measures would allow prosecution of any federal employee who without permission told any unauthorized person anything about U.S. intelligence "sources and methods...
...economy. Begun in 1947 by the first elected government, Bootstrap and it's successor "Fomento" offered tax exemptions, government assistance, and cheap labor to attract runaway industry from the United States. At its onset, the Bootstrap program was the vigorous economic ideology of Puerto Rico's first mass reform movement, the Popular Democratic Party (PDP). The founders of the party saw Bootstrap as the way to make Puerto Rico's status as a self-governing colony economically viable. But the idea has become dogma, just as the Popular Party has become a political machine. For some time this policy...
Carter has always opposed busing, abortion reform, and until this year, a federal takeover of welfare. He has favored right-to-work laws, the death penalty and preventive detention, and opposed federal aid to New York City. His right-wing approach to international affairs is vividly reflected in his selection of Dean Rusk as his foreign policy advisor. The central theme of Carter's campaign has been the need to trim federal bureaucracy, specifically welfare bureaucracy; such language masks a more fundamental desire to realign governmental priorities and to eliminate the social welfare programs of the 60's. The brunt...