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...HOUSE: Carter's staunchest congressional ally is the most powerful: Speaker Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill. From the start, O'Neill has feared that conflicting regional interests in Congress could ruin the overall plan by bargaining on individual points. Warned O'Neill: "The only way we can write a national bill is if they don't team up. If they logroll you, you're in trouble...
Galbraith rarely lets ideologies obscure his view of the world. It is an ironic view in which the need for international trade makes all nations defacto capitalists, and some of the staunchest supporters of laissez-faire have not been too embarrassed to ask the government to bail them out of trouble. The book's title cannot be pushed too far. All ages have their unknowns and inconsistencies. If they did not, the author would find little on which to hone his wit-an effective weapon for getting at realities beneath the appearances. He notes, for example, that Adam Smith...
That approach coincides with a subtle campaign of criticism against Israel by some U.S. arms manufacturers who once were among its staunchest friends. The American companies, restive under export restrictions imposed at home, are resentful of competition from Israel's burgeoning arms industry. In the past few weeks, operating on tips, several columnists and trade publications have accused the Israelis of stealing U.S. technology and "reinventing" it in made-in-Israel weapons...
DURING THE LAST twenty years, at least, literary critics have approached the legacy of Louis-Ferdinand Celine with trepidation, if they have deigned to remember his contribution to French literature at all. He was an unsavory fellow: perceived as a political turncoat; ungrateful towards his staunchest friends; a convicted Nazi collaborator. In an epigraph to his pamphlet called Mea Culpa, Celine taunted, "There are still a few hatreds that I lack. I am sure that they exist." Hatred is a distasteful and difficult subject...
With the departure of Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, to Fisk University, Harvard will bid farewell to its staunchest supporter of affirmative action. In his years at the University, Leonard has set the tone for minority education both here and throughout the country by working toward increasing the number of minorities and women in every area of the University. During his short tenure at the Harvard Law School, from 1969 to 1971, not only did the minority and female enrollment there increase tremendously, but the morale of these students rose accordingly...