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Ford will face his toughest scrap with Congress over his proposal to stop leaks in the CIA. "I'll be darned if we're going to let the leakers ruin our intelligence community," he said while campaigning in Florida last weekend. His Executive order instructs all Government officials who receive intelligence reports to sign a pledge that even after they leave Government, they will not divulge any information about "sources and methods"-sensitive details on names and techniques of U.S. agents and their foreign contacts. The President also authorized Bush to extend the pledge to any material that...
...swinging machetes in the canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house and to win big in the lottery...
Arthur Okun, also a member of TIME's Board and a senior fellow at Brookings, feels that the economy should be restrained somewhat, but not nearly as drastically as Ford recommends. Okun's prescription: either scrap the $394.2 billion ceiling, allow spending to rise to $407 billion or so and keep the proposed $10 billion tax cut; or drop the tax cut and let spending increase to around $417 billion...
...study endorsed by the CEA concludes that business fixed investment would have to rise to an annual rate of about 12% of G.N.P. between now and 1980-v. less than 9.5% expected for 1976-in order to create the jobs needed for full employment. The alternative would be to scrap present laws that call for significant further improvement in pollution controls, which require large investments. The nation would also have to forget about achieving "relative energy independence"-modestly defined as holding oil imports to the 1973-74 level of 36% of domestic consumption. That will require still more investment...
...this English volume was made from Alexander Afanasev's classic mid-19th century collection. First published in the U.S. 30 years ago, the book has now been reprinted under the somewhat misleading rubric Russian Fairy Tales. Actually, the stories include animal fables and laconic anecdotes illustrating some scrap of peasant wisdom...