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...thus gain effective control over all subsequent proceedings. The delegates would have none of it. Instead, they decided to elect a new 200-member Central Committee first and then choose a leader by secret ballot from among its ranks. Never before in the Soviet bloc had such a tactic been used. Said one congress official: "They tried to push the delegates too far too fast, and they rebelled...
What troubles Wall Street moneymen, however, is not Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker's tight-money tactic, which they generally support, but the lack of an equally resolute stance on fiscal policy. Some bankers and analysts fear that the President's tax cut plans, plus his projected defense spending buildup, will more than offset the Administration's deep spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, and thus increase the need for federal borrowing. Interest-rate pessimists like investment bank Economists Henry Kaufman of Salomon Bros, and Albert Wojnilower of First Boston Corp., who have been nicknamed Dr. Doom...
...assuaged little Black misery. The neo-conservative reaction is fashionable; all manner of educated people parrot the idea that affirmative action equals reverse discrimination. All manner of educated people say "I'm sick of their act," as if Black anger, and the demands for its redress, are simply a tactic. And since, with some justification, that anger is undifferentiated, it often alienates the whites most likely to start some change, most likely to change themselves...
Warns Cornell University Entomologist Warren Johnson: '"By the time you see caterpillars greater than one-half inch in length, the time has passed for the most effective insecticide application." At that stage, however, a simpler tactic may help: encircling tree trunks with sticky bands that trap the caterpillars as they scurry up or down. One difficulty: as the bands become overloaded, the caterpillars evade capture by clambering over the bodies of their trapped brethren...
...cleaned up. Who is to do it? In deference to the First Amendment, the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and the courts are either unwilling or unable to censor program content. If CBTV does it through a sponsor boycott, some who are sympathetic to the goals will oppose the tactic, or worry about the ramifications. Says Alan Reitman of the American Civil Liberties Union: "While every group has a right to protest, there's countervailing civil liberties concern that what the coalition is calling for is also a civil liberties concern. This is a situation where you have the First...