Irwin Ross, in Fortune (Feb. 20, 1984), 541 North Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, 111.
Welfare? 60611.
If anybody in Washington is still trying to find fat in the federal budget, he need look no farther than just across the Potomac, to Arlington County, Virginia.
Ross, a Fortune writer, says that while congressional budget-cutters eye Washington's massive welfare and defense outlays, generous fed- eral aid to state and local governments escapes attention. Those gov- ernments "are generally in...
Irwin Ross, in Fortune (Feb. 20, 1984), 541 North Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, 111.
Welfare? 60611.
If anybody in Washington is still trying to find fat in the federal budget, he need look no farther than just across the Potomac, to Arlington County, Virginia.
Ross, a Fortune writer, says that while congressional budget-cutters eye Washington's massive welfare and defense outlays, generous fed- eral aid to state and local governments escapes attention. Those gov- ernments "are generally in m...
R. Gordon Hoxie, in Presi-dential Studies Quarterly (Spring 1984),
Cabinet Government Center for the Study of the Presidency, 208 East 75th St., ~ew
York, N.Y. 10021.
Nearly every U.S. president solemnly promises at the beginning of his first term that he will rely heavily on his cabinet. Yet the U.S. Constitu- tion makes no mention of a cabinet; the institution has varied in func- tion and importance according to the desires of each chief executive.
After his inauguration in April 1789, George...
a strong chief of staff and ambitious White House aides who were more powerful than members of the Cabinet." While it has been argued that the American cabinet system is obsolete, Hoxie believes that its very adaptability argues for its survival.
Business and Labor "Business, Labor, and the Anti-commu- nisi Struggle" Arch Puddington, in National Review (Jan. 27, 1984), 150 East 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10016.
It is no surprise when Big Business and Big Labor wind up on opposite...
PERIODICALS
FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
"Assad and the Future of the Middle
Lebanon East" bv Robert G. Neumann, in Foreign Affairs (winter 1983/84), P.O. Box 2.515,
Post-Mortem Boulder, Colo. 80321.
Now that Syria's President Hafez al-Assad has blocked the U.S.-backed peace-keeping effort in Lebanon, he "has emerged from years of isola- tion and placed himself at the power switch of Middle-East policy. For some time to come, he will remain a man who cannot be ignored."
So w...
no means assured.
To win the wider leadership role that he seeks in the Arab world, As- sad will have to tackle the Arab-Israeli question. That will require a choice between pursuing diplomacy or launching a new Arab war against Israel. Despite Assad's alliance with Moscow, damage to U.S. interests is not foreordained. Washington, Neumann cautions, will have to master "the traditional Middle-Eastern game of opposing and cooperating at the same time."
'A Plan To Reshape NATO" Henry
Reshaping...
an American. And he would give European governments primary respon- sibility for conducting the arms control negotiations with Moscow on conventional forces and intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
Our NATO allies have long been reluctant to begin a conventional build-up. But Kissinger maintains that continued reliance on the U.S. nuclear deterrent is no longer practical. If the Europeans refuse to do their part, he concludes, Washington should consider a partial with- drawal of U.S. troops from...
Jonathan Wilkenfeld and
Michael ~recher, in International Studies
Quarterly (Mar. 1984), Quadrant Sub-
scription Services Ltd., Oakfield House,
Perrymount Rd., Haywards Heath RH16
3DH, England.
The United Nations (UN) is an easy target for critics on many counts.
But according to Wilkenfeld and Brecher, political scientists at the Uni-
versity of Maryland and McGill University, respectively, it handles its
toughest job very well.
In 160 international crises that occurred between 1945 and...
Jonathan Wilkenfeld and
Michael ~recher, in International Studies
Quarterly (Mar. 1984), Quadrant Sub-
scription Services Ltd., Oakfield House,
Perrymount Rd., Haywards Heath RH16
3DH, England.
The United Nations (UN) is an easy target for critics on many counts.
But according to Wilkenfeld and Brecher, political scientists at the Uni-
versity of Maryland and McGill University, respectively, it handles its
toughest job very well.
In 160 international crises that occurred between 1945 and...
putting more money in Americans' hands, deficits increase the de- mand for goods and services and stimulate the economy. Too little stimulation can mean recession; too much, inflation. But in times of high inflation and interest rates, the stimulus that Washington pro- vides with one hand, it can take away with the other. And the authors believe that inflation and high interest rates since 1976 have eaten away the national debt-in effect, taking the money right out of gov- ernment bondholders' pockets-faster...