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...former Prime Minister Ian Smith and three black moderates, is not working, and for the reason widely forecast: it left the Patriotic Front guerrillas on the outside looking in. Says an adviser to Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the most popular of the black politicians in the interim government: "The root cause of the problem today is that the country has no leader. For 13 years the whites had Smith, and before that there was a succession of strong white leaders. In earlier times, before the Europeans arrived, the blacks had strong chiefs. We don't have four leaders today...
Doing so makes the Administration seem out of step with not only Congress but also general public opinion, especially after the passage of the tax-reducing Jarvis-Gann initiative in California. Says a leading committee staffer on Ways and Means: "Bill Steiger has got a tap root in the ground that's 20 feet long. You might have been able to blast him out six weeks ago, but not now. Where was Carter then?" Complains another Ways and Means official: "Carter has us so confused at this point that the issues are a mess...
Success is the root of the problem. More than one-third of all passengers now fly on cut-rate fares, 20% to 50% below regular tariffs, and most would not be aloft without them. The bargains have been brought about by President Carter's plan for the eventual deregulation of the airlines. As a first step, the CAB, in the past wary of cut-rate fares, has been approving almost all applications. The nation's twelve major and ten regional airlines of fer at least 26 separate bargain fares, under such catchy names as Chickenfeed and Peanuts...
...West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? The mistake must be at the root, at the very basis of human thinking in the past centuries. [An erroneous world view] became the basis for government and social science, and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. It based modern Western civilization on the dangerous need to worship man and his material needs. However, in early democracies, as in American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because...
When he first came to the U.S. in 1975 at the urging of a relative, Han survived on odd jobs and welfare. Last year, on his way to English lessons, Han noticed an A & W Root Beer stand for rent. The owner was so impressed with Han's determination to get into business that he gave him the place free for a year. Han took $1,000 in savings and remodeled the stand into a 40-seat restaurant...