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...ships edging within 14 miles of the Falklands coast continued last week to shell the Port Stanley area and the airfield, which London said was "severely cratered." But the Argentines displayed a film showing C-130 Hercules aircraft taking off from the airstrip. The landing strip may have been useless for fighter aircraft, but it was apparently still accessible to the versatile transports...
...Colo.) have been vocal, through largely unheeded, advocates of a more discriminating approach to defense spending. We hope these misgivings about unbridled military spending will lead Congress to examine the Pentagon's requests with an eye toward getting rid of systems that are too costly, unreliable, or utterly useless. Many of the Pentagon's boondoggles are listed in April's Washington Monthly magazine, which describes 35 ways to cut the defense budget. Among the larger weapons systems the magazine would are and which we agree should be done away with...
HAMPERED BY such internal Reaganomics is worse than useless in stimulating investment, its wanted goal. And in the absence of such an investment boom, nothing at all is likely to trickle down to workers in the form of more jobs and in come. But the problem--how to increase productive investment in the U.S. economy--is still with us and is indeed the main economic issue facing America in 1980s. Given the evident failure of Reaganomics, Lekachman argues, the democratic left must address this issue creatively and realistically...
...complicated leasing deal starts with an ailing company that has an investment tax credit and depreciation deductions that are useless to it because it is paying few if any taxes. The corporation sells some equipment plus the tax breaks that come with it to a firm that can use the breaks to reduce the amount it pays to the Government. Then the first company leases back the equipment. The agreement benefits both sides: the profitable company gets a valuable tax break while the firm losing money earns some cash and still has its machinery on lease...
...have helped. In any event, the anticipated confrontations never occurred. Dezza, 80, won more esteem from the Jesuit leaders than had been expected. But his very strength as a master of the Vatican bureaucracy also meant, said one participant, that his "mindset was such that it would be useless to debate." The assembled priests quietly decided that he was unable to comprehend how Jesuits out in the provinces must work to deal with materialism or widespread poverty...