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Your "Greenbacks Under the Gun" [Aug. 28] was almost a true account of our disastrous situation. Your list of things the U.S. "could do" is an exercise in futility. Buy up dollars aggressively with what? More I.O.U.s? More Treasury debt certificates? Freshly printed greenbacks? Sell our gold? What will that do but ruin the price of gold without even touching our foreign and domestic deficits? Sure, sell at the market and we could pay the foreign deficits for a couple of years, and then what? What pol would vote to raise interest rates far enough to put us into...
...opposed to sweepstakes, she is quick to explain, require skill-finishing a limerick, supplying the correct answers, coining a phrase. For some years now they have been losing ground to sweepstakes, a degenerate form in which the judging agency simply draws the winning entry from a bag of mail. True contesters, like Mrs. Haley, look down on sweepstakes. "There are no skill contests left. It's driving me nuts," she says. Most of what Mrs. Haley wins she sells at half price to her Florida neighbors or gives away to her relatives. To get rid of the surplus...
...took the trouble, Mrs. Haley explains, to learn CB language from a book. As a true contester, she made that extra effort, though, she freely admits, a knack at writing "picturesque speech," sharpened by a correspondence course at the All-American School of Writing in Philadelphia, helped a good deal...
...most vulnerable point, and that point is the Persian Gulf. In effect, you rattle the Shah's bird cage. You rattle it hard. This is what they are doing. But let's not get dishonest. Let's not also say that everybody is a Communist. That's not necessarily true. This is power politics we're playing here today. This is not ideology...
...people will not rest," he declared last month, "until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared." Scoffing at the Shah's promise to allow free elections next year, Khomeini said: "As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected...