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...operate under diplomatic cover, receive support from other agents scattered through the Soviet press corps or the staff of Soviet agencies with overseas offices, such as Aeroflot and Intourist. The largest concentration of agents in the U.S. is in New York City, where special United Nations conferences can swell the size of the Soviet delegation to more than...
...influence, the group proves its versatility with a sorrowful song which mourns, "No chicken today," The protagonist awakes to this dreadful state, accompanied by the best horse, dog and chicken pounds civilized man has yet produced. Young laments, "All my chickens, they all run away" and the background vocals swell in a dirge of sympathy. The hero returns to a dinner of pork and beans--as obvious symbol of the heartbreaking compromises of modern life...
What was once perhaps the most potent argument against capital punishment arises less often these days. Yet there is a good chance that an innocent man was hanged in England in the 1950s. And in the U.S. today, as death rows swell and the pace of executions quickens, the risks of such a mistake grow. "You know there are going to be some," warns Michael Millman, a California state public defender. Abolitionist Sanford Kadish, a leading authority on criminal law, is less worried. Says he: "The chances are exceedingly remote...
...surest way to spur recovery would be to move up the 10% tax cut from July 1 to Jan. 1. President Reagan supported such a strategy briefly but then abandoned it because it was unpopular in Congress. The main drawback to accelerating the tax cut is that it would swell the already bloated federal budget deficit. The financial markets are gravely concerned that the flow of red ink will cause inflation to speed up again, and this anxiety, more than anything else, has been responsible for keeping interest rates at lofty levels. As a result, said Eckstein, the Government...
Security analysts, though, are not entirely satisfied with Reaganomics. Their chief worry is the ballooning federal deficit, which threatens to swell past $175 billion this year. They hope that a few more Democrats in the House will force the President to compromise on the budget, perhaps by scaling back his demands for huge increases in defense spending. Says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Prudential-Bache brokerage house: "Investors did not want a rejection of Reaganomics, but they wanted a policy that was a little more flexible, a little more toward the center...