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Reagan accuses Brown of being too far left and talks about a "morality gap" in Sacramento. Brown says Reagan is a right-wing extremist and, if elected, would "disrupt radically the quality of life in California." Some rabid Brown backers have retouched photographs to show Reagan with a Hitler-like forelock and moustache; some far-out Reagan supporters display bumper stickers proclaiming: IF IT'S BROWN, FLUSH IT. Brown insists that the main issue is Reagan's glaring inexperience in government. Reagan retorts that the main issue is the persistent bumbling of Brown...
When Nelson Rockefeller decided to try for a third term as Governor of New York, the polls had Rocky on the rocks. Since then, the gap between Republican Rockefeller and his Democrat ic opponent, New York City Council President Frank O'Connor, has closed, thanks largely to the Governor's unexpectedly hard-hitting campaign...
River Traffic Patterns. Hoping to eliminate every gap in Thailand's defense against possible future insurgents, the center's social scientists have conducted studies on subjects ranging from the work habits and mores of northern hill tribes to the security arrangements in provincial villages. "The most important thing we're trying to do," explains Holbrook, "is to find out what motivates some people to be sympathetic to the Communists...
World Bank President George Woods pleaded with the rich to quadruple their contributions to I.D.A. from $250 million to $1 billion annually. "The development effort," he said, "is faced by a crucial finance gap-the difference between the capital available and the capacity of the developing countries to use increasing amounts of capital effectively and productively." U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball, who is on the verge of retirement, replied: "No nation, when it is confronted with a serious balance of payments deficit, can afford to see the funds it transfers work their way through the international monetary circuit...
Still, there was renewed pressure on the U.S., especially from Europeans, to completely close its much debated payments gap as a precondition for meaningful progress toward world monetary reform. The so-called Group of Ten industrial nations has been creeping toward some sort of reform that would create a new reserve in case the $69.6 billion in gold, dollars and pounds sterling now available to settle international payments becomes insufficient to back growing world trade...