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...increasing influence of big business in America is having an effect on Congress, the administration, and the general public. Political advertising, political campaign contributions, and lobbying expenditures from the business sector--especially from the largest corporations--are growing at an exponential rate. In 1978, business political action committees raised over $50 million, a fivefold increase from their less than $10 million campaign chest...
First, a "compact" requires more than one party. Persons and corporations in the private sector regularly use their economic leverage to influence the activities of our universities through their decisions--either not to attend or support particular ones, or to support them for specific purposes. Corporate leadership is more sensitive than ever about the support of institutions which, in their judgement, are improperly critical of their ethical practices or "capitalistic," free enterprise premises...
...nation's army should reflect all of its citizens. The McCloskey bill, HR 2206, would solve the problem of inadequate amounts of people by requiring some service, either civilian or military from everyone between the ages of 18 and 24. Universal conscription would also give employment to the sector where it is most needed--teenage and early twenties," also, young people could learn skills in the army which would be impossible for them to gain anywhere else...
...people whose kinsmen fan out across the border into Iraq, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, the Kurds have been in rebellion against their overlords in Tehran for generations. During the early 1970s, the Shah aided the Kurds, who were fighting a guerrilla war to gain autonomy for their sector of northern Iraq. The U.S. tacitly backed the rebellion, encouraging the Shah to supply the Kurds with arms and matériel...
Steel has been the key money-losing sector. French steel companies, which have been kept going by uneconomic government subsidies, were not prepared for the crisis that resulted from a worldwide decline in demand, accompanied by aggressive competition from Japan and the Third World. While a French worker takes 11.2 hours to produce a ton of steel, the same job is done in Germany in 7.9 hours and in Japan in 5.9 hours. That is partly because French plants have antiquated machinery requiring greater manpower. A more productive steel industry, the Premier argues, "is a matter of survival for France...