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Would Buckley abolish the U.N. or pull the U.S. out? Not at all. His book comes out as a lament for the U.N.'s failed trust. Walter Mittyism seizes Buckley again as he imagines a coup in which U.N. military advisers take over and forbid the Arabs to bemoan the plight of the world's poor without sharing their oil, or the Africans to excoriate racism without subduing their own racists. In Buckley's fantasy U.N., too, Eastern European representatives would be required to ask Soviet permission every time they rise to speak. Buckley concludes that...
...point in the direction of a decline of the West's political systems. But as a statesman, Kissinger emphasized: "I do not accept the decline of the West as a historical inevitability. I'm trying to be realistic and face what is ahead. You don't abolish these trends by not facing them...
...economists would also: abolish laws that give the U.S. Postal Service a monopoly over delivery of first-class mail, freezing out potentially more efficient private competitors; gradually free airlines to experiment with lower fares for special classes of passengers; deregulate natural gas prices; move to eliminate antiquated Interstate Commerce Commission regulations that have fostered inflexible cartel-style rates and inflated truck and rail shipping charges by an esti mated...
...most important reforms, Ford plans to abolish the job of White House chief of staff. The post was used by H.R. Haldeman, with Nixon's approval, to dominate the staff and bar the door of the Oval Office to all but a favored few. General Alexander Haig Jr., the present holder of the job, replaced Haldeman's officiousness with diplomacy, but still retained enormous powers over the workings of the White House. Such a power center has no place in Ford's thinking. As Secretary Morton points out, the title itself connotes "some sort of overlord...
Both the Provisionals and the Officials managed to get less political people involved, but the Provisionals do it more often. Presumably exclusively Harvard issues tend to seem a bit academic. CHUL managed to stir up a minor storm last year when it recommended that the University abolish sex quotas in housing assignments, including the guaranteed one to one male/female ratio the Quad Houses have enjoyed ever since Radcliffe women and Harvard men have officially lived together. When the going got tough, CHUL hastily battened down, so South House will still be sexually balanced this year. Meanwhile, the Provisionals managed several...