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Misha, the Moscow mascot of the Summer Olympics, has been shaken by Jimmy Carter's Olympic boycott, and so has the NBC peacock. Now the shock waves have reached Postmaster General William F. Bolger, who last week withdrew all U.S. Olympic commemorative stamps, postcards and envelopes from the market "in support of national policy." Will the Olympic issues become hot collector's items like the 1918 upside-down airmail stamp, or even the less exotic 5? 1967 American Space Twins issue, which still commands $10 for a block of four? Not likely. Some 300 million Olympic stamps were...
...cruel because the budget will hit those who are already victims of hard times. Expenditures targeted for the axe include energy assistance for the poor, health care money for children, aid to the cities, revenue sharing--in great part educational funds--for states, cost-of-living adjustments for food-stamp recipients, and spending for public works and youth job programs. The Pentagon is dodging serious scrutiny...
...small but vocal opposition group demanded that the government end its 30 years of martial law and hold national elections to replace the aging members of the rubber stamp National Assembly, still dominated by the KMT. The government heeded the second demand--but only partially. It agreed to hold elections in December 1978 to fill 59 of the assembly's more than 1400 seats and allowed just two weeks for campaigning. Lu ran as an independent from her hometown of Taoyuan, an electronics center west of Taipei. During her short campaign, she advocated three rights for her fellow native Taiwanese...
...hoisting of the five-ringed Olympic flag supposedly internationalizes a site, enfolding it in the pristine and timeless kingdom of sport. But the Winter Games at Lake Placid seemed to bear a distinctly American stamp, from the incredible hoard of gold in speed skating to the site itself, a pleasant little mountain town swamped by the world. The Games provided a kind of ritual relief during a troubled American moment, supplanting cold war fears with cheers for an ice hockey upset. Like all Olympics, the 13th Winter Games left a gallery of bright images on the retina...
Domestically, he was the first major national figure to seek aggressively a sound program of energy independence, including a substantial windfall profits tax. Furthermore, he has deregulated the airlines, increased federal spending on education by 60 per cent, extended food stamp eligibility to an additional two million Americans, bolstered Head Start and programs for the handicapped, and appointed more women and minorities to significant positions than any other president in history. His has been a presidency of quiet achievement...