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...Premier grossly underestimated the unpopularity of higher taxes. Early in the campaign he had said that the government would have to consider easing Japan's $70 billion deficit with a zozei, a stiff tax increase, either on personal income or consumer goods. Stung by a vociferous backlash against new taxes, Ohira tried to soft-pedal the issue just before the election, but by then it was too late. Although Ohira can safely ignore demands that he resign, to form a Cabinet he will probably have to surrender some prized ministerial portfolios to the disgruntled powerbrokers who head rival factions...
Kirkland's got a strong point, but it's a point he doesn't yet believe. Only after he defends a gay accused of robbing a cabbie, a man jailed for months for a missing taillight, and a stiff trial judge accused of rape and sodomy, does he realize how justice overlooks the powerful while staring down the poor...
Bougas received her toughest challenge to date in the finals yesterday, as Jean Osachuk, the second seed from Mt. Holyoke, put up a stiff fight before falling 7-5, 6-2. Leading 5-2 in that first set, Bougas allowed Osachuk to knot the score at 5-5 before taking the next two games...
...military seems to be coping well enough with the pregnancy problem. Few officers think it has much effect on efficiency, and most seem ready with a stiff-upper-lip comment. Says one American general in Germany: "It has never impacted on readiness." Rear Admiral Hogg thinks the Navy is just as shipshape with mothers on board. Says he: "The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman...
...Brothers Niekro throw the most difficult pitch to control. Once the ball leaves the hand, no one, not even the man on the mound, knows where it will end up. Gripped with the fingertips and, unlike every other pitch, thrown with a completely stiff wrist, the ball should not spin. A revolving ball slices through the air; a spinless knuckleball floats free in the breeze, its trajectory altered by every passing zephyr. A gale wind in Candlestick Park or, it would seem at times, a cough from a fan in the front row of the Astrodome can change its course...