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Mulroney also has proposed measures to stimulate investment, a notion that should make U.S. firms happy. He is committed to revising the country's 1980 National Energy Program, a controversial act that allowed the government to claim a 25% stake retroactively in oil discoveries. The legislation infuriated U.S. oil companies, which have substantial holdings throughout Canada and off the Atlantic and Arctic coasts. Mulroney will also overhaul the Foreign Investment Review Agency, a 1974 Trudeau creation that monitors companies wishing to do business in Canada to ensure that their activities are in the country's interest. FlRA...
Religion has become a principal theme of the presidential campaign. Indeed, the prominence and the complexity of religious issues may now be greater than in any previous election. At stake on one level are a set of tough, specific public policy matters with a clear religious dimension: abortion, public school prayer, tax credits for parents of private school students. The debate has also raised more abstract questions: Just how should faith inform public policymaking? Should clergy involve themselves and their congregations directly in politics? To what extent should religious beliefs be thrust into the campaign...
...many people still have a stake in its revival: a Watergate-starved generation of investigative reporters who must make do with imitation enemies lists (USIA), imitation graft (Japanese watches) and now imitation laundering (the Centre Street swap); a public so hungry it will accept fiction, if fact is in short supply (Washington politics has been honored with its own seamy TV soap opera); and some vengeful pols, mostly Republicans who suffered for years through the aftermath of Watergate and delight in the chance to do a little Woodward-Bernsteining themselves, now that they smell a smoking Democratic...
Last week the company and the union that represents about half of its 2,000 employees announced an austerity program un der which 100 to 200 workers will be laid off. The rest will take a temporary 25% pay cut and will receive stock equal to a 6.5% stake in the firm. The union will also gain a seat on U.P.I.'s board. The Washington-based news agency will slowly restore wages to their current levels by Dec. 15, 1985. "This is the worst agreement I have ever recommended to the membership," said William Morrissey, president of the Wire...
...question posed by Langer's book might be: How well did Herbst's friends and admirers really know her? Apparently, not well enough. The misunderstanding is rooted in Herbst's involvement in the Communist Party after 1930. As Langer regretfully relates, when party interests were at stake Herbst was an accomplished liar. On occasion she could deceive herself. In 1930 the writer and her husband John Herrmann journeyed to the U.S.S.R. at the invitation of a party official. When they came home, Herbst plunged into party activities, just short of membership. Herrmann joined up and became...