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Elsewhere in the gulf, other thinly populated oil producers are suffering assorted woes. Kuwait, which survived a stock-market crash in 1982, faces a $1 billion budget deficit this year. Yet the idea of cutting the country's generous welfare-state outlays remains wildly unpopular. In Oman, declining oil prices will hold the economy's growth well below the whopping 14% gain achieved last year and will force the government to curtail projects in its five-year plan. Omanis are already borrowing abroad and using foreign currency reserves to finance budget shortfalls. The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven...
Reagan resorted to similar desperation tactics last month to gain support for his unpopular, idiosyncratic policy. The day before the Senate voted on his aid request, Reagan's Administration--in the words of a senior Honduran official quoted in The New York Times--"deliberately exaggerated the seriousness of Nicaragua's recent border raid and pressed Honduras to ask for $20 million...
However, the manner in which they conducted themselves was deplorable. Of course, the Contras are unpopular on campus but freedom of speech is not for the popular alone. How would they feel if two of their members tried to speak against Contra aid before a group that was in favor of it, only to be heckled, insulted and chased out of the hall, squirted with fake blood? The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech to ensure that the voice of minorities can be heard. In this case, the Contras are the minority. The protesters could have spoken during the question...
...Unpopular tax increases and painful spending cuts are the distasteful alternatives that Congress faces in reducing next year's federal budget deficit to the $144 billion limit required by the Gramm-Rudman measure. But now a growing number of lawmakers are talking about including a third, relatively painless remedy: a onetime federal tax amnesty that would allow past evaders to clear their slates--and at least part of Uncle Sam's--in a single stroke...
Despite the appeals for safety measures, there is little support for strict firearms laws. In Houston, gun control is as unpopular as zoning. A Texan with a driver's license or similar I.D. can walk into a gun shop, sign a federal firearms form and purchase a weapon. No waiting period or local registration is required. The absence of any significant restrictions on gun ownership has helped put firearms in more than a few bedroom closets and night-table drawers --and, it seems, into the hands of youngsters who do not realize how lethal the weapons...