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...high inflation continues, opinions could change. Next week a House subcommittee plans to hold hearings on a bill to authorize mandatory controls. Senator Henry Jackson predicts that, because of the "sheer frustration" of fighting the losing battle against inflation, Congress by this summer will give Carter the power to restrict salaries and costs. But, new wage and price controls would be like Lexicographer Samuel Johnson's description of a second marriage: the triumph of hope over experience...
...strategic weapons would provide just such a possibility. Such a moratorium is not farfetched, but represents a very realistic approach. It could rely on the means of detection and verification that each side already has and had already acknowledged as adequate for monitoring the SALT agreements. It would restrict the Soviets from adding new multiple warheads to their large SS-18 missile and the United States from embarking on the production and deployment of the MX missile system. An important irony of the nuclear arms race is that more weapons do not give greater security, but instead add to instability...
Councilor Kevin Crane, who opposed last night's bill, accused Sullivan of "playing a game where every time the Rent Control Board makes an interpretation, we pass a new ordinance to restrict that interpretation...
...United States will not be able to eradicate the reasons these nations want the Bomb. At best, the U.S. can relieve these national insecurities by guaranteeing their defense, as in the case of South Korea. But the U.S. cannot provide this protection to all. Moreover, attempts to restrict the spread of bomb building know-how have failed: If a junior at Princeton can design a bomb, and a journalist can find the plans to one in a public library, any nation can. As a result, American policy should focus on limiting the spread of the plutonium that is the prerequisite...
...Khomeini who was misinformed: Carter has made no attempt to restrict Iran's food imports. Indeed the clergymen who visited the hostages came away from subsequent meetings with Iranian officials convinced that the Ayatullah is dangerously confused about Western views of the crisis. The clerics wrote him a letter explaining that contrary to the general belief in Iran, the American people strongly support Carter's stand. Said Gumbleton: "We told them they may be misreading the situation, thinking there is a separation between the American people and the Government...