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...Nixon's policymakers for keeping money far too tight (actually, the Fed had been creating money steadily, but consumers had been saving rather than spending it). Also, though most of Nixon's advisers were adamantly opposed to governmental interference in the marketplace. Burns became an early and staunch advocate of some kind of "incomes policy" to restrain inflation. His arguments probably helped prepare the way for Nixon's wage-price freeze of 1971 and the price controls of Phase II in 1972-though that was not quite what Burns had in mind...
...slap on the wrist, a face-saving move designed to end the political firestorm as quickly as possible. They contend that the supervisor did not deserve a suspension but the reprimand was an easy way to avert a long investigation. Two weeks ago The Real Paper--like Vellucci, a staunch advocate of rent control--lashed out at the Globe report as "sleazy journalism." The "Spotlight Team," it noted, trailed Vellucci for only one day and failed to report that he legitimately signed out for the day before returning to Cambridge. The Real Paper discounted the Globe report as an easy...
When time came for me to get a few hours sleep, at around 10 or 11 each night, I would go to the home of the Ortizes, an older couple I was living with who had been farmworkers all their lives, and staunch supporters of the union for many years. During the time we had to talk, I learned of their struggle for the union; in the spring of 1973, when the hard won 3-year UFW contracts expired, the growers signed new contracts with the Teamsters. The UFW went out on strike; the reaction of Kern County was violent...
Another recruit who has flocked to Campbell's camp is Andy Forlini, the proprietor of Forlini's pizza parlor. Forlini has been in business on Broadway for 16 years but only became a staunch supporter of Columbia football when Campbell took over...
...split widens, the right moves into action. From "Radio-Lutèce," a pirate station in city hall, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a staunch antiCommunist, makes an appeal to the nation to sabotage government policies. Confusion spreads. Rumors of a sugar shortage, concocted by conservatives hoping to scar the left, send housewives rushing to stores -thus making the shortage real. Giscard survives an assassination attempt. A right-wing general calls for "resistance" and goes underground. Militant ecologists, aroused over the government's commitment to nuclear weapons and power plants, kidnap the Defense Minister...