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...HEDGING ON ISSUES. When Carter proclaimed, "I'll never tell a lie," he was setting himself up to be measured by a stiffer standard than any other politician. In fact, he trimmed or fuzzed no more than other candidates?including Ford?but not much less either. He equivocated on which was the most important priority in dealing with the economy: first it was creating new jobs, then it was fighting inflation, then it was a kind of balance between the two. After meeting with a group of Catholic bishops, Carter hedged his outright opposition to any anti-abortion amendment, then...
...delicate truce with his principal opposition has enabled Andreotti, a seasoned politician who has three tunes been Premier and was a minister in 16 governments, to crank out an intensive program of austerity measures-including stiffer tariffs, higher government-controlled prices, and proposed wage restraints-aimed at curing the sickest partner in the European Common Market. Italy's current inflation rate is 18%, its internal deficit is estimated at $20 billion, and its foreign trade deficit has doubled in only a year, to $4.4 billion. So weak is the lira that it has to be supported...
...Stiffer Laws. Even before the presidential campaign, pressure had been building in the U.S. to take a more active stand against the boycott. In the last session of Congress, both the House and Senate passed antiboycott bills. The version that finally emerged from an informal conference committee would have allowed firms to continue filling out certain boycott forms, but the companies would have been barred from engaging in any discriminatory action toward other U.S. firms, or from changing their business methods to support the boycott. The bill died after extensive parliamentary maneuvering by Republican Senator John Tower of Texas...
Businessmen are afraid that hardliners in the new Congress may press for even stiffer laws against the boycott and blacklist. That, businessmen contend, would only drive Arab business to other countries, and make it increasingly difficult for the U.S. to pay for the growing amount of oil the nation imports from the Middle East. Administration officials also are concerned that a tough stand will cost the U.S. its diplomatic leverage with the Arab states. Such fears are in no way allayed by a California antiboycott law that goes into effect Jan. 1. Under it, all California corporations that cooperate...
...dwindling few, the good life is still dictated by the exclusionary standards of an antebellum aristocracy. The great Mardi Gras balls of New Orleans are reserved for the private delectation of the old Creole coterie. Charleston's St. Cecilia Society demands stiffer credentials of a would-be member than the upper-crustiest men's club in London. But in most of the South, as one historian has observed, noblesse oblige has yielded to bourgeoisie oblige-even at the country club, traditionally the most closely guarded bastion of upper-class Southern Waspdom. Richmond's Country Club of Virginia...