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...major obstacle to an effective anti-terrorist campaign is the lack of a truly global consensus on the issue. Since 1963, six major international conventions dealing with aspects of terrorism have been adopted by consortiums of nations. But as long as there are states that will not sign such agreements, and no punitive measures can be taken against them, enforcement is impossible. A number of countries, notably Libya, South Yemen, Iraq, North Korea and Cuba, provide terrorists with money, arms or a haven; they seem to enjoy watching the industrial democracies squirm. Tough anti-terrorist resolutions have been presented...
Taxes. The Administration's tax-reform program, which was originally supposed to go to Capitol Hill as early as September, has indefinitely been held up, and many businessmen take that as a sign of presidential indecision. Actually, the principal reason for the delay is that the Administration wants to get the energy fight out of the way first. In any case, it has inspired some wild-and false-stories in executive suites. Says J. Edwin Matz, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.: "It's rumored that the tax bill has things in it so horrendous...
...erect the network of transportation, labor, safety and environmental regulations that many businessmen feel is strangling them, and his criticisms of the abuses of Big Government during the primary campaign led some to believe that he would make the regulations less onerous. Now they can see no sign that he has or will. CEA Chairman Schultze contends that the Administration has brought about some improvement in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had gained well-deserved notoriety for enforcing niggling rules. That is news to executives, who find OSHA as petty-minded as ever. Grant Simmons Jr. complains...
This is only the second time since 1972-73 that Harvard managed to avoid a deficit. But the black ink has appeared in two consecutive years, an optimistic sign to administrators haunted by inflation during the earlier part of this decade...
...endowment did rise last year, but at half the rate of the previous year's increase. And the balanced budget, administrators stress, is a sign of restraints and cutbacks, not new-found financial stability...