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...noted that many economists believe unemployment cannot be pushed below 4.5% without sharply boosting inflation.* But inflation was virtually unmentioned. Main reason: as the bill's more candid supporters admit, it would not be effective without wage and price controls-but they are anathema to labor unions. Significantly, Sar Levitan, director of the Center for Manpower Policy Studies at George Washington University, estimated at a previous hearing that to reach 3% unemployment in four years, national output of goods and services would have to grow at an annual rate of 7.5%. He added: "The nation has never achieved such...
...Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political prisoners who were rounded up after the abortive rightist coup of March 1975. Even some 200 former agents of Caetano's hated secret police, PIDE, have been released, as has former Interior Minister César Moreira Baptista, under whom they operated...
Later research, however, has not borne out his forecast. In a new study called Still a Dream, Sar A. Levitan, William B. Johnston and Robert Taggart concluded that "the weight of the evidence seems to suggest that integration in the schools can make small improvements in black I.Q. and achievement." Still other researchers find the evidence too contradictory to support any overall findings...
Elio Petri is a film maker of deft, sar donic talents (We Still Kill the Old Way, Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspi cion, both starring Volonte). Lulu suggests no solutions. Petri takes great joy in the freedom of unrestricted attack and ignores the drudgery of coming up with answers. In fact, he could be counted on to mock anyone who dared...
...leading Communists in the movement are Saloth Sar, leng Sary and Son Sen, who helped found the Cambodian Communist Party in 1951 during their student days in Paris. Most Western observers assume that the Communist Party is the Khmer Rouge's driving force...