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...other friend, Robert Gardner, 43, a high school teacher in New Castle, is urging another tactic. Aided by hundreds of "English" volunteers, he has collected upwards of 10,000 signatures and hopes to get 10,000 more on petitions urging Congress to enact a law exempting all Amish from paying for Social Security. He has even written to President Reagan asking for his support. "The Amish," says Gardner, "are not a fly-by-night religion, just formed to avoid taxes. Legislation already exists which exempts an Amish individual from paying Social Security taxes when he is self-employed. The precedent...
Walesa is under constant pressure to cooperate with the authorities. One tactic they use is to imply that he is imposing hardship on his family by refusing to cooperate and thereby win his release. Still he remains adamant: he will not negotiate anything but the complete restoration of Solidarity. The government wants to reconstitute trade unions in Poland, though only on its terms. Walesa has also rejected the government's offer to allow him and his family to leave Poland. As Danuta said in an interview published in the London Sunday Times: "He replied by yelling at Vice Premier...
...none captures the political strategy behind the Administration's economic policy to date At every turn, President Reagan has sought to ascribe favorable economic news to his program of sweeping tax and budget cuts, while blaming downturns on structural factors and Democrats. Only one phrase can properly describe that tactic: having your cake and eating it too. As the President's most recent statements suggest, that opportunism remains the centerpiece of his economic program...
...himself from the harmful political consequences of his economic measures. At the same news conference, Reagan indicated he supports in principle a burgeoning grassroots movement to ratify a 27th constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. Proponents expect the President's formal endorsement this spring. That clever tactic would allow the President and his Capitol Hill adherents to proclaim their support for balanced budgets on the 1982 campaign trail--while pushing through what will prove the largest federal deficit in history...
...quickly retreats into the mark of his metaphors. Concurrent with his work on Hometown, Davis supervised production of a television documentary series chronicling life in Muncie, Indiana. The programs (I have seen one) use the same style as the book--little dramas meant to illuminate the whole. The tactic does not lack merit entirely; only a crank would demand a portrait based exclusively on generalizations and "facts and figures." But Hometown rests exclusively on the evocative anecdote, the symbol instead of the substance. His hints at Hamilton's significance for all of our hometowns never amount to much more than...