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...high tax rates that would be needed to finance higher domestic expenditures as long as the price of fighting in Vietnam continues to rise. The country may have the resources, and the problems may be "serious," but there must be some limit on the spending in the public sector. The domestic programs must wait--two or three years, maybe longer -- until the end of the war. If people want to spend their money on private consumption, rather than on education or urban renewal, "that's their choice." The task of the Republican party, in Ford's view, is to represent...
...defense and attacking Hussein for refusing to counter aggression with aggression. In Hebron, they burned the car of Hussein's governor and forced the army to throw roadblocks around the town. At Nablus, they potshot at po lice from barricades and upstairs win dows. In the Arab sector of Jerusalem, thousands poured through the streets, ripping down pictures of the King and shouting anti-Hussein slogans before Hussein's elite Arab Legion fired into the crowd from the walls around the Damascus gate. Riots dragged on for two days in nearby Ramallah, where the legion also...
...economic context, the reaffirmation of will would have to take the form of an increase in taxes, drawing offsome of the money now spent on consumption and pouring it into the public sector. "You can't rely on the President alone," he believes. "You can't rely on the federal government alone. Much more remains to be done at the local level and the state level, and when I talk about tax increases, I'm talking about tax increases at the state and local levels." Mindful of the delicate economic situation, he took off the record a reference to federal...
...Gallois suggested that the new provisions are fine but not "for soldiers at war." Another veteran officer imagined a situation where "a pilot of a Mirage IV [French nuclear bomber] receives an order to throw his bomb on Square 88, refuses until he has a guarantee that in his sector is neither a school, a hospital or a church...
...Burma for eight years, and would not hesitate to state that 90% of the people are totally against Ne Win and his government [Sept. 16]. He has antagonized every single sector of the nation. He has been absolutely ruthless, despotic and stupid in bringing chaos to the economy of a wonderful land and a wonderful people...