European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes february poll shows economic pessimism Consumers sceptical about tax cuts Washington up american Consumers Are generally pessimistic about the state of the Economy and about presi Dent reagans ability to Cut taxes and spending while balancing the said a Survey released a Gallup poll taken for the Cham Ber of Commerce showed that almost 75 percent of Consumers believe this is a bad time to buy a half think Auto Mobile and major appliance purchases at this time arc not a Good the poll showed Consumers More reluctant now to take on new debt than they were two years ago when fewer than half of All Consumers thought it a bad time to buy a the Survey also reported that americans Are sceptical of reagans ability to fulfil his Campaign Promise to reduce government Cut taxes and balance the Federal Only 25 percent of those surveyed said they thought Reagan would be Able to accomplish his economic and 10 percent said the president could achieve Only one of his three generally pessimistic expectations for the Economy and inflation May prove to be an advantage to the Reagan adm Nistra said Survey director James mor Morris said lower Public expectations May allow the new administration a longer Grace Only 28 percent of the surveys respondents said they favor substantial personal income tax cuts As a Means of curbing Infra but 22 percent said reductions in Busi Ness taxes Are another 22 per cent said neither tax should be surveyors asked what percentage of a tax Cut Consumers would save if taxes were slashed by 10 percent in each of the next three on the respondents said they would save 26 percent of such a tax the poll also found that if inflation were giving Consumers More disposable they would be Able to save about 30 percent of the increased amount left Over after monthly expenses were reagans Fop aide linked to Call Tor a cutback in presidents news coverage mechanical heart for humans Robert Jurvick of the artificial or Gans division of the University of Utah shows the an artificial heart which May be implanted in a a doctors review committee has approved the implantation now the food and drug administration will decide whether it can be used for Washington up a conserva Tive Institute from a foundation established by president reagans top aide believes there has been too much uncontrolled news coverage of the presidency and recommends the new administration Cut it the to be published in february or March by the Institute for con temporary is entitled politics and the Oval it includes Basic advice on How the new president can Best Deal with the bureaucracy and the the Institute is part of a foundation which was established by the Man who is now Counselor to the Edwin Meese the tone of the chapter dealing with the press is summed up in the title the Imperial it starts with the premise that part of the presidents Job is Media management and that who it said tend to look for the bad and the can Best be con trolled by being kept at a distance or in the the Basic recommendation of the Chap ters Robert Entman of Duke uni is that less press coverage is if there has to be some it should be carefully controlled by the presi Dent and his the key for a president getting along with the according to etmans and is Media some specific recommendations do not make a fetish of getting the president on television presidents have helped erect barriers to their own leadership by Over emphasizing Media which frequently Only reinforce the cynicism of air Force trying to attract former pilots Washington not with More planes than it has the air Force has begun a major Effort to persuade former pilots to the number of air Force pilots and navigators has steadily declined since the Early when commercial airlines began to lure them with promises of better by the end of next air Force officials expect a shortage of about pilots and navigators and scientists and in the reduction is occurring at a time when the service is receiving delivery of a Large number of new including f 15 and f16 As a hundreds of officers have been returned to flying duty from training and administrative assign at the same commercial airlines have begun laying off pilots As a result of a decline in the number of those pilots Are the focus of the services stepped up recruitment for each experienced Pilot it can entice the air Force will save about Mil lion in costs of training a new Accord ing to William i was in the air Force for six then went to work for trans world airlines for belter said Dale a 30year old Pilot who has decided to after 10 months i was Laid off As the airline began to make cutbacks because of a drop in passenger and the air Force offer became the difference Between a Job and no Hartikka said his air Force pay and benefits would be about a which greek Tanker Burns up fire broke out in the engine room of a greek registered the in the at lactic about 40 Miles from a tug and four Navy and coast guard helicopters were sent to the the coast guard reported that there was no danger to the Crew of is comparable with what he was earning As a probationary Pilot with the in the the air Force has had As Many As some of whom Are in staff jobs or Are but that num Ber has dwindled to about this has forced us to pull officers from the planning staffs that would organize the deployment of troops to foreign countries in the event of an said Joseph who is a supervisor of we want to return the number of pilots to around the the goal for the current fiscal year is 550 he and the service expects to exceed that since More than 600 applications for reenlistment have been re but the Pace at which the air Force is processing those who would reenlist appears to be so about 70 including about 50 have been proc Essed and returned to Active and 20 others Are awaiting return Purka journalists and citizens reduce reporters tame White House beat reporting by de creasing reporters expectation of full Access to by directly asserting that the demands of leadership require a modicum of reduce the coverage of the president by overwhelming reporters with technical data this tactic should defuse complaints about total it could reduce the total volume of since dry data Are often defined As discourage personal mingling be tween press other White House staff and Entman argues that it is the press that benefits mainly from these casual enc Oun and warns that the president and his aides cannot expect a break from the journalists just because there has been a past social the president should limit Cabinet visibility to less newsworthy and he should not publicize it in any he and he the president must mix elements of new Media management techniques with dollops of the other coping mechanisms will surely appear their Suc Cess would measurably enhance presidential Pope names monsignor to Post in Washington a monsignor Stephen Sulyk has been named ranking prelate for ukrainian rite catholics in the United states by Pope John Paul pastor of the Church of the As sumption in Perth was also appointed archbishop of the ukrainian rite archdiocese of monsignor Sulyk succeeds archbishop Myroslav who was named coadjutor Bishop for the ukrainian rite and assigned to Rome last Best Sellers fiction the covenant James Michener brain Robin Cook for Starler Stephen King answer As a Man Taylor Caldwell the rage of Angels Sidney Sheldon the key to Rebecca Ken Follett come pour the wine Cynthia Freeman masquerade kit Williams until Nashed tales Tolkien the fifth horseman Larry Collins Dominique Lapperre nonfiction Cosmos Carl Sagan Nice girls do Irene Kassorla crisis investing Douglas Casey Richard Simmons Nevers Aydlett Book Richard Sim Mons Best evidence David Leflon Betty crackers International Cookbook general Mills the says the limit Wayne Dyer the coming currency collapse Jerome Smith Craig Cla Bornes gourmet 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