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economy has been Gerald Ford's driv ing concern as President. He declared inflation to be domestic enemy No. 1 in his address to Congress, then pursued it relentlessly in a series of consensus-building economic conferences. Last week, appearing before 800 economists, businessmen, Government officials and labor leaders at the final summit in Washington, Ford declared that "this is not the end but the beginning of a bat tle" to rescue the economy. "You have done your own work well," he added. "Now it's my turn...
...leaders of those interests, as well as key Senators and Congressmen, for a mammoth two-day debate on what to do about the U.S. economy. Though politically the Democrats warned Ford that he could not count on automatic bipartisan support for Administration policies, there emerged an overwhelming economic consensus that the battle against roaring inflation will be long and painful, and during its course the nation will suffer a protracted period of stagnant production and rising unemployment that by any name will amount to a recession. Said Democratic Economist Otto Eckstein: "The economy will suffer a recession, which seems...
...prompt continued building of vast air-raid shelters in many of China's cities.) Although the Chairman's goals are, as always, difficult to understand, some China watchers believe that he is trying to strike a complex political balance between the radical and moderate forces. The consensus is that Mao's own strategy for the post-Mao era took shape at the Tenth Party Congress, held a little more than a year...
Whatever the procedure, there is a growing consensus that official papers concerning public affairs and prepared at public expense indeed belong to the people. The fact that Presidents historically have disposed of material as they wished is not binding. As the Supreme Court noted in the 1969 case of Powell v. McCormack: "An unconstitutional action ... taken before surely does not render that same action any less unconstitutional at a later date...
...Laura Burns says that although NAM has not yet reached a "consensus," the group will probably put less emphasis this year on study groups within the group than on working at organizing or picketing. On the other hand, D-SOC's Minard talks ambitiously about discussion groups and guest speakers...