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...Manhattan restaurant. And he even attended President Carter's Inauguration. Finally, after a last interview in hiding, with ABC's Barbara Walters, Hoffman, 44, gave up last week. Said he, outside the state court building in Manhattan: "It's damp underground. I wouldn't recommend the life of a fugitive to anyone...
...President also surmounted his first hurdle in winning crucial labor support, which traditionally supplies money and manpower - though far fewer votes than it once could - for Democratic candidates. The executive council of the AFL-CIO voted to recommend a Carter endorsement at the meeting of the general board next week. But heads of several of the biggest unions did not show up, and some of them abstained from voting. They are worried about persuading their members to turn out for the President. Said a union official: "The educational effort by the unions will probably convince most of their members that...
...Cuts. Despite his strong opposition to any tax reduction before Election Day, Carter will recommend a tax cut of perhaps $30 billion, which will be effective next Jan. 1. As a means of stimulating business investment, the Administration will propose more liberalized tax writeoffs for new spending on factories and equipment...
...channeled through an existing Government agency such as the Economic Development Administration. The EDA would invest in large-scale projects and help industries to modernize their factories and improve or change their products in order to compete in world markets. Carter's economic renewal plan will probably also recommend the establishment of a national commission to be composed of representatives of Government, labor and business. This group would meet informally to discuss such issues as labor relations, investment and Government regulations for industry as a whole. One body already exists to discuss problems in the steel industry...
Nonetheless, that was enough to recommend Raja'i to members of the clergy-controlled Islamic Republic Party, which dominates Iran's parliament, the Majlis. That body approved Raja'i's nomination by the lopsided vote of 153 to 24, with 19 abstentions. Banisadr had stated publicly that he considered Raja'i a bad choice. But he finally bowed to clerical pressures and nominated Raja'i at the "recommendation" of a parliamentary commission controlled by the I.R.P. Explained a senior civil servant: "Khomeini was becoming impatient. It was obvious that the more brazen-faced mullahs...