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COMMENT Fighting fire with lire Like the engineer who fiddled and fumbled while America was burning fifty years ago, the current occupant of the White House seems paralyzed. But now not only the...
...credit will make a contribution to our fixed costs...
...A Congressional Budget Office report entitled National Service Programs and Their Effects on Military Manpower and Civilian Youth Problems ascribes important advantages to a national service program...
...Can Jackson have forgotten that just such a reason was used not so many years ago to deprive the world champion himself of his lawfully earned title...
...Tough There's no doubt about it Bella Abzug is an uppity woman who doesn't know her place...
...More often, new schools were set up, draining the public schools of white students...
...We see, here and there, tortured attempts to rationalize the Vietnamese intervention as assistance to Kampuchean insurgents or as resistance to a demonstrably brutal and authoritarian regime...
...How can the environment be protected from wastes that remain toxic for centuries...
...The Union of Concerned Scientists, the Boston-based group which raised the reactor safety question in the first place and never accepted the comforting reassurances of Rasmussen, has quite properly called for a shutdown of the sixteen reactors licensed since the issuance of the report and for a safety review of the fifty-six others built earlier...
...Otto Eckstein, a former member of the Council of Economic Advisers, has concluded that "the Government has decided to take a major risk of recession," and current member William Nordhaus has pointed out that even "large degrees of slack in the economy are increasingly impotent in combating inflation...
...Just because the racial policies of the South African government are abhorrent, must we therefore apply the same policies ourselves and say that some South Africans white South Africans cannot work here...
...White parents who vowed their kids would "never" go to school with black kids made good on their promise: They yanked their kids out of the public schools and enrolled them in private schools...
...It is also powerfully influential, wealthy, protected by the First Amendment, bristling with tradition and folklore, aided in its desire for concentration by tax laws and Government policy, and expanding technologically in every direction...
...Jackson is right about the importance of coming to grips with the problem of American support for racism in South Africa...
...It is a telling example of the fatal compromises that characterize our current approach to the problem of nuclear war...
...policy-planners, but even they must understand that it would not be accepted by Americans at home or by the world community...
...Inflation and the instability of the dollar are only symptoms of a larger concern the failing health of the U.S...
...Let the military confront the problem in their ranks and deal with it directly by reforming the abuses that contribute to low morale...
...They chuckled at the fact she was unaware of her fate and vied in imagining her reaction...
...everyone grants that right is constitutionally protected...
...The act stipulates that he submit a plan to Congress providing job opportunities for youth "in a variety of tasks...
...And the nation has seen a simultaneous cultural shift "toward less statism," weakening the independent authority of regulatory agencies...
...Corporate grabbing takes place in an atmosphere of cultural listlessness that invites candy-coated news and prizes diversion for itself...
...There is no constitutional right to discriminate with Federal money...
...See "Disenchantment in the Ranks," by Thomas Conrad and Michael Marchino, in the February issue of The Progressive, and "Adam and Eve and the Army," by Bob Drogin, on Page 30 of this issue...
...In terms of sheer flack-ery, it was the hardest White House sell since the recognition of China...
...The proposed rate subsidy would apply only to manufacturers in faltering industries who employ ten to 500 workers and spend at least 5 per cent of their gross revenues on electricity, Why not a subsidy for those who spend at least 5 per cent of their welfare allowance or Social Security "pension" on electricity...
...So the Navy whittled the project down to 4,000 square miles and rechristened it "Project Seafarer...
...Even if he had committed a serious crime a charge not proved would that have been reason to bar Knoetze from the ring...
...Neither the President nor his advisers are ignorant of these effects...
...The report failed to take sufficient account of criticism from the scientific community, said the NRC, and its margin of error is so wide that it cannot be relied upon for even the roughest assessment of the risk of reactor accidents...
...If The collapse of this latest and most elaborate of the industry's scientific underpinnings serves as another reminder of the shakiness of the whole substructure and of the imperative need to move now to alternative energy technologies which need no such concoctions...
...This is where the heftiest profits lie, and this is where the Federal Government can spend freely without competing with powerful business interests ¦ both highly important considerations to Carter and his corporate constituency...
...In other words, even if the FTC could find a way to intervene, it would be taken to court, and the appeals courts would not look kindly on any regulatory action that could abridge the First Amendment...
...The goal is a narrow and specific one the solution of a manpower problem that cropped up when Congress abolished the draft...
...How can atoms-for-peace be kept separate from atoms-for-war...
...status...
...While cutting back on job programs for the unemployed, on school lunch programs, on aid to dependent children, and on other domestic services which he regards as inflationary because they require Federal spending, the President has scheduled increases for the most inflationary sector of all the military...
...A key element of this lackluster performance is the absence of growth in business investment...
...Whether the transition is violent and disruptive, as in Iran, or relatively peaceful and orderly is one of the few questions still in Washington's power to resolve...
...He is right about the need for a tough U.S...
...The industry represented by such communications conglomerates as RCA or Time, Inc., is an elusive and ornery adversary "chronically ill-tempered," FTC Chairman Michael Pertschuk told the symposium, "at any form of external scrutiny...
...Governmental reassurances about the safety of radioactive releases from the normal operation of nuclear power plants and the perfectibility of techniques for radioactive waste disposal bear many of the tell-tale defects including suppression of contradictory findings that brought down the Rasmussen Report...
...It is possible that the military will attempt to seize power arid reimpose a repressive dictatorship...
...Such schools were helped to prosper by obtaining tax-exempt status as educational institutions, permitting donations to them to be written off as charitable deductions...
...While some military spending will decline or remain at the same level, the steepest increases have been scheduled for military programs that are the most inflationary of all: a 45 per cent increase in Air Force missile procurement funding, fresh starts in vast new shipbuilding programs for the Navy, and the opening wedge for a multi-billion-dollar mobile missile program that consists essentially of digging holes in the ground...
...That assumption was challenged at the symposium by Monroe E. Price, a professor of law at UCLA...
...And when it comes to regulation, the producers of the news enjoy the unique strategic advantage of being able to control public debate...
...But what can the FTC or anyone else do except complain...
...Vernon E. Jordan Jr...
...In the name of cooling off the economy to preserve the living standards of working Americans, Jimmy Carter has given us an inflationary jolt from which we may never recover...
...It was a mismatch from the start...
...In a study prepared for Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, Achieving America's Goals: National Service or the All-volunteer Force?, William R. King suggests that the volunteer army is merely a transitional phase between the 1940-1973 draft and a future national service program...
...Vietnam's Incursion' As if it were not already fragmented and feeble, the American Left (or a substantial segment of it) seems bent on opening a new schism over the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea (Cambodia...
...The promoters of national service, aware of the unpopularity of the draft, are quick to stress the voluntary nature of their programs, but they do not exclude the possibility of making them compulsory later on...
...But that is only one implication and not the worst of the budget he has laid before the new Congress...
...It is assumed that the Federal Communications Commission's authority has been compromised by the industry it supposedly regulates...
...human rights policies was at stake...
...Price argued that since the fairness doctrine (an attempt to regulate content) was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1973, things have changed: We now more strongly believe, he said, in the need for a "free and unencumbered press" to protect our rights...
...To assure that the firing received maximum publicity, others in the White House were calling reporters to suggest that they come by the building for what they were assured would be a really rip-snorting story...
...Undaunted, the Navy tried again...
...The economic effect of all this has been well stated by William W. Winpisinger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, whose union alone stands to lose 35,000 jobs a year by virtue of the diversion of Federal dollars from civilian to military projects: "Everyone knows military spending is the largest Federal contributor to inflation____Military spending is not based on competitive bidding...
...The dollars which might have put people to work producing goods and services of economic value, or contributed in other ways to the nation's measurable wealth, will flow instead at an increasing rate down the bottomless rathole of military consumption...
...Some schools lost their exemption, but most continued to flourish by making a simple statement that they did not discriminate, though those professions of non-discrimination were belied by the absence of black faculty and students...
...About $700 million has been taken from the CETA program (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) enough to eliminate 160,000 public-sector jobs and 250,000 summer youth jobs...
...The budget may be a symbolic gesture, but the stakes are high...
...But the residents of that area would have no part of it, especially after learning that the low-frequency radio waves could be biologically and environmentally damaging...
...If white supremacists want their own schools, they can't be stopped...
...Earlier studies had shown that the meltdown of a reactor core, with its consequent release of enormous amounts of radioactivity, could kill thousands of people, cause billions of dollars in property damage, and lay waste to vast stretches of land...
...Anyone trying to understand why most local journalism is gutless, unimaginative, and trivial must admit that the encroachment of chains, groups, and conglomerates is not the only issue...
...If cutting the budget is ineffective and potentially dangerous, why do it...
...He still has warm compassion for his old pal, Bert Lance...
...See "The Media Monopolies," by Ben Bagdikian, in the June 1978 issue of The Progressive...
...is executive director of the National Urban League...
...Iran's lesson It is difficult to predict, as these pages go to press early in February, how the bloody crisis in Iran will ultimately be resolved...
...Army attempted to pacify the Iranian countryside...
...And it bids up prices of scarce economic resources, across the board...
...It is not just a question of raising the country's military, spending commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by 10 per cent to fulfill a pledge to the treaty partners...
...Now, five years after the reactor safety question was supposedly disposed of, the U.S...
...the CIA deftly toppled Mohammed Mossadeq and conferred full despotic authority on the Shah...
...The outcome was uncertain, but the discussion revealed some of the confusion confronted by anyone who tries to decide how to introduce greater diversity or responsibility into the workings of the corporate press...
...dollars overseas...
...On the contrary, there is a constitutional mandate against such discrimination...
...It has asked that their fuel bills be exempted from the gross receipts tax, the city sales tax, the fuel oil tax, and the real estate tax, and that sulphur content restrictions be lifted to permit sale of a cheaper grade of fuel oil...
...Except when it comes to uppity women...
...Conflicts and contradictions in the socialist world deserve (as Sidney Lens notes on Page 24 of this issue) the thoughtful scrutiny of American radicals...
...Nevertheless, local residents voted against it by a margin of 4 to 1 in a series of referenda, and candidate Jimmy Carter, campaigning in Michigan in 1976, promised, "If I am elected, Project Seafarer will not be built on the Upper Peninsula against the wishes of its citizens...
...where 9.3 per cent of all families still live below the poverty line...
...While such questions have gone unanswered since the inception of the industry more than a quarter of a century ago, the promoters of nuclear power have in recent years found comfort in the knowledge that, with sufficient effort, it is not impossible to put public anxieties to rest...
...In the same city could a newcomer tell by reading a few issues whether the local newspaper was owned locally or by the Gannett or Knight-Ridder chains...
...Ambassador Andrew Young, for one, to lend his support to the concept of compulsory national service and to speak glowingly of public service conscripts marching off to work in blue blazers and slacks...
...Still, it would be unjust to assume that Jimmy Carter is now all tough, inhuman decisiveness...
...be handled through governmental programs, not through modification of utility rates...
...Consolidated Edison of New York City has asked permission to reduce rates for needy customers who are "encountering critical economic difficulties...
...where black family income has fallen relative to white family income (from 61 per cent in 1970 to 57 per cent in 1977...
...Corporate timidity stifles independence, and entry into the market is restricted because wealth is required to compete with the corporations...
...When Jimmy Carter ran for President he promised Americans full employment, a reduction in military spending, an end to tax loopholes for the rich, and new programs for welfare, health insurance, and our cities...
...economy...
...And it is a demonstrable fact that in many cases newspapers bought by corporate chains are more thorough in their coverage and even more independent editorially once they gain some distance from the local establishment...
...Predictions for 1979 are not encouraging: The Department of Commerce estimates a 3 per cent real increase in business expenditures on plant and equipment, as compared to the 4.5 per cent increase last year...
...The FTC, which under Pertschuk has an activist reputation in Washington, decided to goad Goliath anyway...
...The balance of payments reached a record deficit in 1978...
...But does the monotonous hubbub of commercial radio, where most stations still are independently owned, represent diversity...
...In an effort to reduce the Federal deficit to $29 billion, the President's $532 billion budget calls for cuts of about $15 billion from the total needed to maintain current spending for social programs and services...
...In some cases, long-established private schools saw their enrollments swell...
...Or a lifeline rate to provide a low-cost basic amount of electricity...
...But chains are gobbling up the profitable dailies and weeklies and a single conglomerate may own newspapers, television stations, magazines, a publishing house, a film studio, a record company...
...Some of the sources of this listlessness may be found in the journalism schools, where often as not students learn that journalism is a clerical discipline, a set of techniques to be mastered...
...Those seg schools will have to remove the Federal seal of approval if they want to continue white supremacy policies...
...What can be done to minimize the consequences of human error and human malevolence...
...The possibility for a national service program already exists under the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, signed by President Carter last fall...
...So the IRS drew up a set of regulations that conforms to anti-discrimination laws and to court rulings...
...The budget cuts, then, are a clear signal that the Administration is determined to shore up confidence in the dollar...
...The FTC could succeed in dismantling RCA and we would still be wondering why every newspaper needs a "Lifestyle" section, why everyone who reads the news on television must have thirty-two (or forty-two) sparkling teeth, why Mario Puzo makes so much money, and why Time and Newsweek so frequently have the same cover stories...
...In firing her the President displayed, as The New York Times noted, "the decisive image that his advisers have been urging him to adopt in preparation for an expected reelection drive in 1980...
...Searching for a means of restoring confidence in the industry's ambitious growth plans, the Atomic Energy Commission enlisted Professor Rasmussen, a large team of scientists, and much of its own staff in a project designed to allay public fears...
...It rescued reactor safety from public debate and conveyed the implied promise that other doubts might yield to similar studies...
...they are philosophical and cultural...
...In 1970, the Federal courts got into the act...
...The regulation is really a mild one: The schools would merely have to enroll a modest number of minority students or simply demonstrate that they are making a good-faith effort to do so...
...A sugar-coated draft While liberals worry about high youth unemployment and conservatives fret about shortcomings in the all-volunteer armed services, there seems to be a growing consensus for a "quick fix" to the two problems...
...Easing the apprehension of the international money markets is, of course, not the Carter Administration's only economic worry...
...The purpose of "Project Sanguine," as it was once called, is to transmit radio messages safely in time of war or national emergency to the far-flung underwater fleet...
...But he was dead wrong about Kallie Knoetze...
...Bowman Cutter, associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, estimated the proposed deficit will reduce inflation only two-tenths of one percentage point, and Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, has also admitted that the Administration's emphasis on "stringency" will have no significant effect on inflation...
...The Congressional Black Caucus has summed up the effects: "By halting expansion of vitally needed domestic areas and by requesting cutbacks in existing Federal programs, the current policy will impose the main burden of reducing inflation and protecting the dollar on millions of American families who are least able to assume additional hardships...
...Payments to families with dependent children have been pared...
...It cut the system back to a 130-mile underground grid in and around K.I...
...private economy...
...But now not only the economy is at stake...
...The opponents and potential whitflers-down of the communications giants say they want greater access, or diversity, or localism, or pluralism, or de-concentration...
...Just as the international financial community has imposed austerity, primarily at the expense of workers, on many less developed nations, so it is now trying to impose similar restraints on the United States...
...It competes for funds that otherwise would be available in the private money market...
...in the continuing inability of newspapers and broadcast operations to find Ways to truly represent the lives of members of minority groups, or to include them in any substantial way on news staffs...
...There are people, however, to whom a display of Federal sincerity is important the foreign-exchange traders, finance ministers, and central bankers who hold hundreds of billions of U.S...
...Without such a system, it has been argued, the submarine commanders might not know when or where to fire their missiles...
...National service proponents describe the program as an opportunity for youth to meet the most urgent needs of the nation by providing work in conservation, health clinics, and libraries...
...The budget package is being sold as part of the Administration's anti-inflation program, but its real effect on inflation is likely to be minimal...
...The argument against concentration has revealed a genuine national problem: On the surface it would appear that the United States overflows with communications outlets 1,700 daily newspapers, 10,000 weeklies or biweeklies, 10,000 periodicals, 8,600 radio and 1,000 television stations, 4,000 cable systems serving 9,000 communities, a recording industry with $3 billion in annual sales, a publishing industry which issued 42,000 new titles and earned $4.7 billion last year...
...But while the budget's consequences for inflation may be small, other economic and social consequences will be grave...
...No more reactors should be licensed in the absence of such tests...
...But more fundamentally, has the whole issue been misconceived...
...For bigots, perhaps, but not for those who value civil rights...
...This analysis was prepared by Red Cent Collective, a group of socialist economists in Amherst, Massachusetts...
...In the name of stimulating business and putting people back to work, Herbert Hoover helped trigger the Great Depression and the worst unemployment crisis in our history...
...Therefore, the FTC can step into a vacuum, keep its hands off the content of the media, but regulate the structure of the industry...
...in the minds of editors and news directors, who persistently undervalue the intelligence of readers and viewers and use-these denigrations to excuse their own lack of intelligence and imagination...
...It took five years longer than was necessary, but in the end no amount of official collusion over reactor safety could shield the industry's vulnerability from persistent public scrutiny...
...As Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps has pointed out, recent growth of investment "still falls short of that experienced in previous economic expansions...
...Diversity should not be an issue...
...The Navy wanted to lay the underground communications grid throughout Upper Michigan and the northern half of Wisconsin...
...That these regimes will ultimately fall is not in doubt...
...Once upon a time this monument must have symbolized the regulatory contest: the bursting energy of American manufacturing subdued in the public interest...
...Michael Kirkhorn (Michael Kirkhorn is a member of the journalism faculty at the University of Kentucky in Lexington...
...While reductions in social programs are an inefficient way to fight inflation, they will result in higher levels of unemployment, and thus weaken labor's bargaining power...
...Leading with his jaw Jesse Jackson, the Chicago heavyweight, has a well-earned reputation as a civil rights fighter, but if his recent bout with Kallie Knoetze of South Africa is any indication, he may be getting just a little out of shape...
...Such a move would spell doom for the dollar and for the U.S...
...In the present economic crisis, the concept of national service has an appealing ringjobs for young people, manpower to work on pressing social problems...
...Two decades ago, when the stakes were much lower and the threat to American interests much less formidable, the United States found it easy to install a government to its liking in Teheran...
...Sanguine about SALT Thanks to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, which is supposed to be an instrument for curbing nuclear weaponry, the Navy may finally get the go-ahead it has long sought for construction of a "doomsday" radio communications system for its nuclear submarine fleet...
...intervention in Vietnam and all its catastrophic consequences, the Shah might still be sitting in his palace today guarded, perhaps, by a couple of regiments of U.S...
...It says the Pentagon "must take a more active role in the formulation of policies toward youth...
...Other customers would have to make up the revenue loss, says Stevens, but it is in their own best interests: "Customers who receive the...
...And even if the State Department's human rights policy is in need of bolstering as indeed it is is the denial of a work permit to a simple working man the place to start bolstering it...
...It is more than just a bad budget, more than just a self-defeating budget, more than just a budget of broken promises...
...the President should not be involved in the regulation of the press...
...For the physical safety no less than the economic security of the country and the world, his proposals offer the portent of disaster...
...He succeeded only in making the fighter, his country, and our own State Department look a lot better than they deserve...
...It's called national service...
...The pattern set in Iran is likely to be repeated in many other lands as exploitive regimes installed or sustained by the United States torment their people to the point of insurrection...
...And Richard Nixon can dine at the White House even if Bella Abzug can't...
...It is but another way of sweetening a pill that America's young people and their elders rejected emphatically just a few years ago...
...And while the 9 per cent inflation rate is the worst since the 12 per cent of 1974, the economy is still not operating at nearly full capacity...
...Relatively small and politically vulnerable targets school lunches and school-age Social Security beneficiaries will also feel the impact...
...It came to the conclusion that one's chances of being hurt by a catastrophic nuclear power plant accident were about as remote as the chances of being hit on the head by a meteorite...
...So she had to be fired from President Carter's National Advisory Committee on Women especially after the Committee had the effrontery to criticize the President's domestic austerity program...
...Nor is it a question of a mere 10 per cent increase for the military across the board...
...Indeed, those are the minimum steps which would seem to flow logically from the NRC's decision...
...Such a "solution" may still captivate the imagination of some U.S...
...banks) and in billions of dollars of U.S...
...If they were to lose confidence in the Carter Administration's management of the economy, they might dump the dollar for currencies deemed more likely to hold their value...
...in the general unwillingness to reorganize newsrooms, which for all their fancy new apparatus, carpeting, and computers, remain stratified in ways which discourage bright young journalists...
...Congress, for obvious political reasons, is afraid to touch the question...
...To compromise domestic policy for the sake of international monetary stability is a convincing way of showing that determination...
...Jackson challenged the visitor's right to box in the United States on the dubious grounds that Knoetze is of low moral character, that his government practices racism, and that the integrity of U.S...
...If, for example, the FTC's midwinter symposium inquiring into the dangerous implications of concentrated corporate ownership of newspapers, magazines, broadcast operations, and book publishing were commemorated in stone, the sculptor would have to carve a bewildered regulator holding an empty bridle...
...Where will the cuts be felt...
...Business Week calk it a budget that "will place the Federal Government on a long-term course of restraint unparalleled since the Eisenhower years...
...In a case that went to the Supreme Court, it was ruled that racially discriminatory private schools were not entitled to tax-exempt Con Ed helps the needy Who says the utility industry has no heart...
...What can be said with certainty is that Iran marks a decisive turning-point for the American imperium: Washington can no longer readily impose its will, even when the stakes are high...
...It produces no products or supplies that people can buy...
...Those who would defend an invasion by Vietnam forfeit their right to protest an invasion by the United States...
...In escalating the military budget beyond its already dizzying heights, the President chose a course that is absolutely certain to fuel the fires of inflation...
...With the Congressional delegations of Michigan and Wisconsin still vociferously opposed to the idea, the prospects for ELF looked no better than those of its predecessors until early this year, when President Carter, reversing his earlier position, asked Congress to appropriate $13.4 million for the project Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin explained why: "The President is pushing for SALT, and the Navy and military types will make arguments saying this [Project ELF] is important to our defense...
...The source of this solace was the Rasmussen Report, an impressive document named for its chief author, Norman C. Rasmussen, professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put together five years ago to address one of the most pressing questions: the risk of catastrophic accidents at nuclear power reactors...
...Though we find ourselves in the longest peacetime expansion since 1945, unemployment still hovers around 6 per cent...
...Shall we fight apartheid with apartheid...
...Despite the obvious bias toward corporate interests, Carter has been arguing that his fight to control inflation is "the best thing that I can do for those with relatively low incomes and who are most dependent on Government" This is simply a lie...
...The goal is to prop up corporate profits and restore business confidence...
...And the stakes are enormous in Iran not just in terms of oil but also in some $9 billion of external debt (much of it owed to U.S...
...But that mild regulation has spurred more than 100,000 letters of protest to the IRS, and a small army of members of Congress is putting pressure on the IRS to revoke or modify the regulation...
...The issue is whether they should get a Federal subsidy...
...What is a safe level of human exposure to the radioactivity it generates...
...Were it not for the U.S...
...Outspoken to the point of abrasiveness...
...We may draw small comfort from that, given the continuing danger, but it is more substantial than any comfort we are likely to get from those who are bent only on providing us with empty reassurances...
...A budget for bankers For working people, blacks, the unemployed, the aged, and the poor, the last two years of Jimmy Carter's first (and perhaps last) Presidential term will be rough sledding...
...The industry faced a crisis in 1972 when the public learned that the mechanism engineers had been relying on to prevent such accidents the emergency core cooling system had never been tested...
...When the question was put to the President at a mid-January press conference, Carter responded, "I think it's important that the Government set an example...
...A company spokesman explains why not: "In our view, income redistribution and social programs must...
...One nation's military intervention in another's affairs is repugnant in principle and in practice whether the intervention is mounted by the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia, by the United States in Indochina, or by Vietnam in Kampuchea...
...Restraint can in no way be beneficial to the poor in an economy where black youth face an unemployment rate of almost 50 per cent...
...Reality is more prosaic...
...These factors do not diminish the real danger of abuse by great corporate owners, but they must be considered when such reforms as divestiture are advanced as methods of improving the quality of American journalism...
...Drawing upon its authority to investigate possibly "unfair methods of competiton," the Commission convened a two-day symposium which was attended by several hundred scholars, Government officials, journalists, lawyers, and executives...
...Marines, while several divisions of the U.S...
...it is the country itself and the world...
...To cope with this ominous trend, the Administration is attempting to restructure the domestic economy...
...And let the rest of us get to work on the broader and more basic social ills that confront young people and other Americans...
...Those who see national service programs as the solution to America's pressing social problems should be aware of the real motives underlying the current campaign...
...But let them support those schools themselves without raiding the Federal treasury to do it...
...David S. Broder, writing in The Washington Post, provided a revealing glimpse of the new, tough Carter White House: "A visitor who happened to be backstairs at the White House last Friday, a few hours before Abzug's removal, could not help but notice the lip-smacking glee with which Presidential aides were savoring her impending execution...
...exports...
...The company is even willing to go to bat for its needy customers by lobbying the city and state for special relief producing further reductions in their bills...
...And in doing so he also fuels the fires of war by heating up an already overheated arms race that can end only in incineration for us all...
...In effect, the welfare of millions of Americans is being sacrificed to prove that the Administration is serious in its fight against inflation...
...He is also right in pointing to sports as a proper field for civil rights surveillance...
...The entire military budget will be raised by that amount...
...Lance and Nixon may have their little faults, but the President is a forgiving man...
...What's all the fuss about...
...That job has yet to be begun...
...Regulating the press is not like regulating the producers of canned soup or refrigerators...
...That may persuade Senators to go along with the President in order to make sure that they don't develop some further opposition to SALT...
...There are limits to Consolidated Edison's compassion, however...
...A dozen papers were discussed empirical findings, legal arguments, proposed reforms, defenses of current ownership arrangements...
...Alfred Kahn, the Administration's chief inflation-fighter, has also alluded to the symbolic importance of the budget...
...The safety systems have yet to be tested...
...If the United States persists in its role as sponsor and defender of tyranny, it will continue to bear the consequences of rebellion...
...Now, to its credit, the IRS has stopped playing their game...
...Such arguments have persuaded U.N...
...The seg academies have enjoyed a free ride for too long...
...It is more probable that the extraordinary combination of religious and revolutionary forces will prevail...
...It is possible, though hardly likely, that the Shah's hand-picked successor government led by Shahpour Bakhtiar will somehow cling to power a little longer...
...Can anyone who watches three local news broadcasts in a strange city tell which of the three stations is owned by the local newspaper company...
...Ben Bagdikian, a University of California journalism professor who has closely studied ownership, told the symposium that the outlets which reach the largest audiences are "increasingly coming under control of a small number of corporations," and the chief executives of these corporations constitute a " private ministry of information and culture...
...In contrast, if these customers left our system, they would make no contribution to our fixed costs...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (successor to the AEC) has come to the conclusion, on the basis of an independent review, that the Rasmussen Report is essentially worthless...
...The challenger deserved the TKO he got...
...The 'seg academies' The Internal Revenue Service has come under heavy fire in recent months because of its new regulations denying tax-exempt status to the notorious "seg academies" that were set up after local public school desegregation took effect...
...The argument doesn't revolve around the right of such schools to exist...
...Several studies and reports to the Ninety-fifth Congress suggest a push to establish a program of youth employment of which military service would be one option...
...The key questions are not, as the symposium suggested, economic or legal...
...Sawyer Air Force Base near Marquette, Michigan, and called it "Project ELF" (an acronym for extremely low frequency...
...Private schools charge "dictation by regulation" and have wrapped themselves with the cloak of religious freedom, since some of the schools claim affiliation with a religious denomination...
...It adds to the debt servicing burden of the Federal Government...
...But there is no basis for ambivalence with respect to the events in Kampuchea...
...The result was a mammoth $3-million study, exhaustively documented with charts and diagrams, computer modelings, and a dozen thick appendices...
...One promise he has kept is the one to NATO to increase the military budget...
...What is anyone willing to do...
...Carter's goal of reducing the Federal component of the gross national product to 21 per cent, along with the 1978 tax bill and the proposed reductions in social programs, is part of a concerted effort to redistribute income and resources away from working people and the poor to the corporate sector...
...The co-sponsor of the legislation1, Representative Augustus F. Hawkins of California, when asked if the bill could provide for national service, replied, "It's broad enough to do what we want it to do...
...There are also some other implications that arise from it: If Now that the reactor safety study has been repudiated, the burden is once again on the nuclear power promoters in industry and government to prove that nuclear reactors are safe from catastrophic accident...
...Media monotony Outside the Federal Trade Commission's Washington headquarters, a sculptured stallion surges in the brawny grip of its trainer...
...Unwilling or unable to engage in those pleasant and polite hypocrisies that make Washington the wonderful place it is...
...But times have changed...
...They are the prisoners of a capitalist ideology which singles out the military sector as the most acceptable conduit for the vast public expenditures needed to sustain the economy...
...While the conclusion was immediately challenged by outside scientists the American Physical Society, for one, documented numerous errors the Rasmussen Report quickly achieved the desired effect...
...Without that hidden subsidy from the Federal treasury, few of the seg academies could have survived...
...Aid to state and local governments will be cut back by almost $10 billion, virtually destroying the $11 billion urban aid package Carter proposed last spring...
...Assistant Vice President Robert B. Stevens explains that the company is responsive to the pleas of customers "who expressed concern with the level of energy costs...
...If The failure of this major study to survive critical examination should rekindle public skepticism about the integrity and reliability of other officially sponsored studies that address nuclear questions...
...The wreckage of Rasmussen The nuclear industry has always been haunted by questions of safety...
...Vernon E. Jordan Jr...
...It is immoral and unconstitutional for Federal money to be used to support discriminatory activities...
...human rights policy evenly applied throughout the world...
...It says that predominately white schools that were established in a period following public school desegregation or whose enrollment grew by 10 per cent or more at that time must prove they do not discriminate...
...It comes close to being sheer madness...
...As the battle of the budget unfolds and we embark on the bumpy journey of the last two years of the Carter Presidency, we should not forget which promises were kept and which were broken...
...Thus, in the name of arms limitation, even the most unlikely forms of arms escalation become possible...
...Jerrold Oppenheim (Jerr old Oppenheim is director of consumer law at Community Action for Legal Services, Inc., the umbrella agency for Federally funded legal services in New York City...
Vol. 43 • March 1979 • No. 3
