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Fortunately, this spring has proved an anomaly--a welcomed reprieve. Men's baseball and lacrosse have gained playoffberths and the crews have returned to Eastern Sprints domination after a couple of shaky years. But the rest of the year remains very lean, especially in the beef sports--football, hockey and basketball...
...sense as having a member of GM's management sitting on the board of an international union." Some rank-and-file members of Eraser's own union remain suspicious about his getting too close to management. "I'm afraid it's a sellout," said Maye Lean Amos, a sewing-machine operator at Chrysler's Detroit auto-trim plant. Some union leaders meeting in Washington last week for their regular spring session were sympathetic to the "special circumstances" of Eraser's appointment. But most supported AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, who says that workers...
...Lean Years, Barnet writes that the same situation led to Carter's down-the-wire support of the deadweight Shah of Iran in 1978. In the midst of Tehran riots, the director of the National Foreign Estimate of the CIA, Robert Bowie, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to give an optimistic report...
...Lean Years, subtitled Politics in the Age of Scarcity, sketches the powerful hierarchies supporting the production and distribution of five world resources: oil, energy, minerals, food, and water. Barnet finds that "the illusion of scarcity creates power," and that "the market operates almost totally on illusion. It was folk wisdom that the crisis was exaggerated, that the doubling of gasoline prices was making the companies rich, that the companies were in league with the sheiks against the consumer--and it was all true." But--he stresses--there is still a real oil crisis that Americans will not face, which...
...Lean Years Barnet constructs a middle ground where the American public and big businesses share blame for the world resource crisis. As a member of the Institute of Policy Studies, he demonstrates the ability of an outsider from the federal government to present a more cogent and cohesive view of problems than spokesmen for Washington, who have kept the public in a muddle. His overview may be more pessimistic than most offered to the American public, but the weight of his examination of public policy should serve as a signal to the White House that Americans want, and are capable...