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...Unemployment is much worse if your work force demands larger pay than is warranted by productivity. I have the impression that in the United States your pay increases are very much more modest, much more in step with productivity. You also do not have the same number of public-sector industries that we have. I think President Reagan is more likely to be able to reduce inflation and still have not as much increased unemployment as ours...
...public spending as long as you don't touch their own particular hobbyhorse. We would have been able to cut it much faster and sharper if we hadn't honored the Clegg tribunal [to raise salaries of public service employees to make them comparable with the private sector]. That was an enormous increase. This year the pay to civil servants, local government, nurses is 50% above what it was two years ago. Now they are as advantageously treated as the private sector. In some cases, more so, because it is the private sector that is taking the unemployment...
Businessmen have been wary of the Sandinistas since the leak last year of something called the 72-hour document. This clandestine paper described how a Marxist regime should tolerate a private sector only until the government was able to take over the economy and throw the capitalists out. Confiscations of land and factories by the government suggested to many business leaders that the Sandinistas took the document seriously...
...businessmen were further hardened against the regime after security forces last November shot to death Jorge Salazar, a popular, prominent businessman and COSEP member. The Sandinistas claim that Salazar was conspiring to overthrow the government, but business sources believe that he was framed in order to discredit the private sector...
...files in with matching black and gold briefing books. After several uncomfortable glances and an embarrassed exit the door of the Roosevelt Room is closed behind the intruders. A Secret Service man guarding the back entrance to the Oval Office is not at all pleased to find in his sector an unidentified stranger trying to look as if he is waiting for a bus outside the door of the Roosevelt Room. This is the type of moment the Secret Service has been trained...