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Many businessmen last week agreed with a blunt assessment by White House Domestic Policy Adviser John Svahn, who was quoted as calling the Ways and Means plan a "Thanksgiving turkey." While Reagan planned to increase business taxes by about $123 billion over the next five years, the Ways and Means proposal aims to boost that collection by an additional $15 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was so discouraged with the bill that it called for a postponement of any effort at tax reform for two years. "It has gotten too far from its original objectives, and it's time...
...House has so far postponed taking a stand on it. Reporters inquired about the President's attitude toward the plan last week, when he appeared for a holiday photo session with a 55-Ib. gobbler named Wilfred. Quipped Reagan: "The only questions I will take today are about the turkey...
While traveling abroad, I found that the approaches to birth control vary from country to country. Family-planning classes at Fudan University in Shanghai are in the department of economics because the need to feed and shelter families has become an acute financial problem for the Chinese. Turkey assigns its birth control clinics to the Department of Labor, believing that a lower birth rate will mean fewer unemployed in future generations. The Egyptian government includes family planning in its Department of Family Health. Jules F. Rosenbaum Houston...
...Turkey Shoot. More than $4 million was targeted for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. The organization, dating to the time when militias were essential to national security, now does little more than conduct shooting matches and conventions of gun buffs. Congress has been trying to kill this turkey, but it is backed by the powerful National Rifle Association...
Western security agents learned of the diversion scheme last July and managed to catch up with some of the less important gear, packaged as burglar-alarm equipment bound for Turkey. Officials who tailed the hot computer hardware are virtually certain the remainder of the equipment is now in East Germany or the Soviet Union. LAWSUITS Better Late Than Never...