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...dissenting opinion supporting Rep. John Anderson's 50-50 gas plan never mentions the people for whom this harebrained scheme would prove an absolute disaster. Above all this plan would attack those who depend on gasoline for a living: salesmen, drivers, deliverymen and cabbies--to name just a few. There is no way a flat reduction in Social Security (SS) taxes would be enough to compensate these people...
Each would consider training four more years if there was a boycott. However it would depend on where he was and if he could train properly. "Four years of working would be a real sacrifice," Altekruse adds...
Like the rest of the crammed Republican field, Crane's prospects depend largely on New Hampshire, where he hopes to break the 10 percent barrier. "We feel Crane is on the way up. He has considerable strength in Florida, potential in Alabama and is looking forward to his home state's primary on March 18," Cronin says. Given his ideological affinity to Reagan--Crane labels himself the "inheritor of the conservative vote"--some observes have speculated Crane might throw his support behind Reagan...
Western diplomats depend on unsound hypotheses that involve supposed "left" and "right" factions of the Politburo, when, in reality, all of its members are united in seeking world conquest and are undiscriminating in the means they use. Insofar as struggles do occur within the Politburo, they are purely personal; they cannot be used for diplomatic leverage. The average Soviet citizen, deprived though he is of information about the world and of the benefits of Western Kremlinology, understands this perfectly well. Illiterate Afghan herdsmen are equally on target when they burn portraits of Marx and Lenin, instead of accepting the tale...
...report: "The world economy is now functioning so badly that it damages both the immediate and the longer-run interests of all nations. The search for solutions is not an act of benevolence but a condition of mutual survival." Both peace and continued prosperity in the industrialized nations will depend on success in developing the Third World...