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...conference's old hands, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, as expected, was Reagan's harshest critic, lecturing the U.S. President about his "overreliance" on monetary policy to check inflation. Schmidt openly charged that Reagan's advocacy of stiff trade restrictions with the Soviet Union conflicted with the U.S. decision to lift its embargo on grain sales to Moscow. Still, Schmidt had worked carefully with Trudeau before the conference began to seek "a middle ground" in which...
Such stories are frighteningly common. Someone is killed in a drunk-driving accident in the U.S. every 23 min., an annual toll of more than 26,000. Yet a drunk driver is rarely arrested, and the possibility of stiff punishment is remote...
...final pressure point is the courtroom, where judges and juries have rarely imposed stiff punishment on these largely middleclass, otherwise law-abiding defendants. RID has now set up a program in New York called Court-watch to study each judge's treatment of drunk drivers. If the judges are not tough enough, they risk RID's opposition on Election Day. Aiken claims that her group was primarily responsible for defeating a judge whose 75% conviction rate seemed...
...Tennis officiating is a fine art, requiring split-second judgments on tennis balls traveling 150 m.p.h., but at Wimbledon it is done by amateurs who only last year were required to have their eyesight checked. Players whose paychecks ride on such hairbreadth decisions find it difficult to maintain a stiff upper lip when bad calls rob them of crucial points. Tim Mayotte, 20, a surprise quarter-finalist, explains, "Yes, McEnroe is ridiculous. But umpires are making mistakes too. Ask a question, and the umpire will just turn away and say, 'Play on.' You can understand the frustration...
...Giroux; $10.95). At Hartford's old gallery he got an edifying uplift from an edifice he admires. The building's designer, Edward Durell Stone, fares well by the writer's architext, but most practitioners will wish that they had kept this Wolfe from the door. "The stiff regulations for becoming an architect," says he, "make no more sense than those for undertakers. There is nothing you couldn't learn at a Berlitz engineering school in two weeks...