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...Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, also made the connection, saying that the prime cause of high interest rates is the borrowing requirements of the U.S. Government. This is likely to be a source of friction when Western leaders meet later this month at an economic summit in Williamsburg, Va...
Interior's Wrong Designs The Interior Department, under feisty Ideologue James Watt, always seems to be in trouble with Congress. On Monday in Lynchburg, Va., Secretary of the Interior Watt addressed the graduating class at Liberty Baptist College, founded by the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell. Said Watt: "We have seen government used by the enemies of liberty and freedom here in America, God's chosen place." But back in Washington, critics charged that Watt's Interior Department was proving all too charitable, in a most unsaintly way, to private industry...
Last Friday Dubberstein failed to appear for his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. Assuming he had fled, Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. issued a warrant for his arrest. Dubberstein, however, had not turned fugitive. His body was found in his friend's apartment, where, investigators said, he had put a shotgun to his head and killed himself. That was no confession of guilt, of course. But it was a tragic way of pleading nolo contendere...
Economic Concerns. Clearly mindful of the forthcoming annual Western Economic Summit to be held in Williamsburg, Va., later this month, the participants called for greater coordination of Western economic policies in order to avoid what U.S. Special Trade Representative William Brock aptly described as "international dyslexia, where we have a disconnect of various components of policy." The West, said Brock, must act to "reduce barriers to trade and reinforce growth. That requires a substantial improvement of communication and coordination of policy." Achieving that will be difficult, yet if the allies fail to do so, Hormats pointed out, "the deterioration...
...found Americans opposed to metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week to assess the state of their cause...