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...been a success? Phase 2 will be the real test, but at the end of the first 90 days there will be several useful points at which to apply the economic litmus. Part of the test will be psychological: there will have to be a popular consensus that the program is working, some feeling that things look better. Even before then, there will have to have been serious negotiations between labor, management and Government to get Phase 2 under way. If Phase 1 has been a success, wages, of course, will be steady; so should the cost of living, particularly...
Flexed Muscles. The Sunday night announcement was no problem for U.S. dailies-except that it took an extra day for their editorial writers to react. When they did, the consensus was overwhelmingly favorable. The Philadelphia Inquirer praised "an act of courage and statesmanship unparalleled by any U.S. chief executive for at least a third of a century," and the Baltimore Sun approved "an activist flexing of government muscles not seen since the early Roosevelt experiments." "No longer," noted the Miami Herald, "is the American economy all sail and no rudder." Cartoonists portrayed Nixon variously as a parody of Roosevelt, ministering...
Indeed, the White House has a new strategy. Nixon wants to wait and see whether outsiders?businessmen, labor leaders, Congressmen?can build up enough support for an incomes policy to create the political consensus that would enable it to work. Provided that happens, he may be willing to accept it. The consensus could be built in next month's Senate hearings. While they are going on, Nixon will have a grace period of several months, during which the original anti-inflation plan may still work out as George Shultz hopes. If it appears during the hearings that Congress will approve...
China scholars share a fairly clear consensus about the leading universities and thinkers in their field...
Rehabilitation. There is less consensus about the role of the victim in rape cases. Some victimologists contend that rape victims invite attack. But Amir believes that fewer than 20% of rapes are precipitated by the woman's being "negligent or reckless or seductive." Philadelphia Psychiatrist Joseph Peters also thinks that the victim of sexual assault is less often at fault than is generally believed. To resolve the controversy, he and his colleagues have just begun a study that calls for exhaustive interviewing of every Philadelphia rape victim over the next four years...