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...that any President can do to stem the rising costs of food and fuel, the sectors pushing up costs and creating permanent inflationary pressure. These commodities are in short supply, and a growing, developing world will demand more and more of them. Unless the price rises high enough to summon forth significant new sources of supply--which in the case of oil seems to be happening--or to decrease consumption--which, in the case of oil, is not--the price will not stabilize. Considering that motive power and petroleum itself are essential to the production of most goods...
...austere they can be, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress generally oppose a convention--they would rather keep control of the amendment process themselves. The pressure for a convention comes chiefly from Republican state legislators, and all but five of the 29 states which have already asked Congress to summon a convention are west of the Mississippi--the same area which gave Gerald Ford his near...
...professors' fears. Attorney General Griffin Bell has said that he believes Congress could limit a convention's agenda; an American Bar Association study from 1974 agrees, as long as Congress passes the necessary legislation. Furthermore, most of the bills that the states are passing to ask Congress to summon a convention themselves stipulate that budget-balancing should be the only issue on its agenda. Congressmen, too, though opposed to the whole idea of a convention, would obviously prefer one with narrow authority. In fact, the dire warnings against a convention run wild come only from opponents who are using them...
...State of the Union address assured the American people that "together, we build the foundation for a strong economy with lower inflation without contriving either a recession with its high unemployment, or unworkable mandatory government controls." But moralizing won't stop inflation, so Carter will probably try to summon up the preacher's other techniques of salvation--gentle persuasion and cajolery--talents the President did not use to great effect in the last session of Congress. Before his plan has a chance of success, he will have to convince Congress to accept his "lean and austere" budget, Labor to hold...
Escapists will revel in the hero, whose power and wealth lead to freedom that is the stuff of fantasy, and fantasy-fiction: "He could be a welcome guest anywhere across the continent. He could host a dozen luncheons. He could summon a harem of women, fly to Haiti or Honolulu or Honduras at the flash of a credit card." West's people may converse in bromides ("Let me put it this way," one observes. "It's lonely at the top"), but they get them wrong often enough to sustain suspense: "Men get drunk in high places. Sometimes they...