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...plan, presented to the President and the press last week by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan in the form of a chart-studded, 262-page booklet (with two fat volumes still to come), puts more flesh than ever before on ideas that would-be tax reformers have been kicking around since the 1950s. It gives Americans their clearest idea yet of who might be helped and who hurt by a thoroughgoing rewrite of tax codes aimed at trading the elimination of most exemptions, deductions and preferences for deep slashes in tax rates...
...University booklet doesn't really tell you what the people are like, what the room conditions are, or how appropriate the stereotype is," said the English major...
Segal has estimated that the cost of printing and distributing the booklet will be less than $600. Since he missed the official deadline, he requested an emergency grant from the Undergraduate Council to finance the project...
...page booklet entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare is a primer on insurgency, a how-to book in the struggle for hearts and minds. Some of the "techniques of persuasion" are benign: helping the peasants harvest crops, learn to read, improve hygiene. Others are decidedly brutal: assassination, kidnaping, blackmail, mob violence...
With any luck at all the discovery of this booklet should stiffen congressional resolve to resist more funds for the contras. But then what is to be done with the remaining books? One good possibility would be to distribute it free of charge to the rebels in El Salvador on the off chance they might follow some of the suggestions. Considering the luck the contras have had and the usual quality of CIA advice, the rebels will roll over and die within a month...