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Young also faulted Jackson for relegating young Black intellectuals to functionary roles in his campaign; asserting that they should be set to the tank of formulating policy...
DIED. Aurelio Peccei, 75, Italian industrialist and founding president (in 1968) of the Club of Rome, the international think tank that caused a worldwide stir with its 1972 book The Limits to Growth, warning of impending environmental catastrophe; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...much of the campaign, he used "the right stuff' as a tag line in his Southern television ads and played up his military past. In Pine Bluff, Ark., he piloted an antique Stearman training biplane ("That was fun!" he said) and at Ozark, Ala., drove an M-60 tank in figure eights ("That...
...policy" is more nebulous. Basically, he would coordinate disparate Government policies (banking regulations, tax laws, research-and-development funding) according to one grand strategy. Some of his specific economic plans are reasonable enough, but others seem almost too clever, as if the candidate acquired ideas wholesale from a think-tank catalogue. Hart recommends bold agreements between labor, industrial management and Wall Street. Fine, but he practically ignores the political and bureaucratic impediments. It might be a good idea to set up a presidential Council on Emerging Issues to address long-term economic strategy, but Hart's high hopes...
...sophisticated out more mobile weaponry. While advocating a defense increase of about four percent--the same as Mondale--Hart has argued his case in terms of what the money is spent on. Hart led a 1983 filibuster against the MX missile, opposed the B1 bomber and the M-1 tank, fought for the SALT II treaty, and introduced legislation calling for a worldwide freeze on the manufacture of plutonium that could be used by terrorists to build nuclear weapons. Hart, in 1982, opposed the construction of two large aircraft carriers, arguing instead for more usable and less vulnerable smaller craft...