Word: rigidities
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...search for a Middle East peace formula intensifies, Israel is coming under increasing attack from friends as well as foes. The complaint: Jerusalem is too rigid and hawkish. Last week, for example, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat proposed that Israeli troops pull back from the Suez Canal; Egyptian troops would occupy the canal's east bank, and Cairo would reinstitute a formal ceasefire. The suggestion was greeted suspiciously by Israel, which is adamant against Egyptian troops crossing the canal under such terms...
...poll upsets the assumption that young Israelis are considerably less rigid than their elders. Under some circumstances they are: those aged 18 to 29, for instance, appear more amenable to increased social relations with Israeli Arabs than do older groups. More of the young think the government has been too rigid in its approach toward peace than do other groups (14% v. 2% among those aged 40 to 59). But the young are also more insistent than the older Israelis on holding direct talks with the Arabs rather than the indirect discussions being conducted through United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring...
...fact that liquor is the second largest source of revenue for the Federal Government (after the income tax). It is almost as important for hard-pressed state governments. Officials are understandably eager to keep close control over such a rich source of cash. Whisky makers complain that rigid, archaic regulations have blocked them from following the changing attitudes and tastes of the nation's 93 million liquor drinkers. Now, some of the rules are being relaxed, partly to enable domestic distillers to meet growing foreign competition. As a result of decisions by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division...
...wage-price freeze. "Such controls treat symptoms and not causes," he has argued. Besides, he says, they do not work, are inequitable and incompatible with a free economy. Last week Nixon bent his principles to fight raging inflation in the nation's largest industry. Carefully avoiding rigid controls, the President imposed what he called a largely voluntary "system of constraints" designed to stall the wage-price buildup in construction...
...rejiggering or slight changes in emphasis, but a complete overhaul. To be sure, Communism scored great accomplishments in turning backward Russia into a major industrial power in half a century, with a G.N.P. approaching $600 billion. But the development has been uneven. The Soviet command-style economy, with its rigid planning, central controls and bias against experimentation, simply no longer works effectively. Specialization demands decentralization. No single, central planning agency can fine-tune a diversified modern economy. The industrialized world has passed into a new and more mature technological stage in which, as Wayne State Professor Richard Burks puts...