THE ECONOMY Overriding Issue If Richard Nixon's China initiative hastens the end to the war and removes Viet Nam as an issue in the 1972 campaign, the election could turn on the President's overriding domestic problem: the economy. The polls and the politicians say that the economy is the voters' No. 1 worry on the home front, and that people are displeased with the way the President is handling the twin troubles of unemployment and inflation. Labor unionists, feeling particularly victimized by rising prices, are using their ultimate weapon to force fat wage increases. Last week...
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