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...Reagan's "user's fee" nor O'Neill's foredoomed big-spending plan is likely to do much, however, to reduce the current 10.4% jobless rate. Congressional rumblings to "do something" about unemployment will surely grow, very possibly to a roar, when the more Democratic 98th Congress convenes in January. Last week's moves on the issue may mean that the White House has seen the political future and begun to make its plans accordingly...
...President's dealings with the 98th Congress could take one of three paths: forging a coalition with conservative Democrats, negotiating a true bipartisan consensus, or settling for a standoff. The first would by pass the congressional leader ship by working with Boll Weevil Democratic defectors, much as Reagan did to pass the budget and tax cuts in the past. White House Chief of Staff James Baker claims that despite last week's defeats, the President still has a pool of 245 sympathetic Congress men to draw upon to reach a 218-vote majority...
Leaders of the movement now aren't pushing for instant equality of numbers of representatives. Despite the surge in political activity, there probably won't be many more women in the 98th Congress than the 19 representatives and two senators in the sitting 97th. That's because very few politicians start at the national level and the qualified female candidates are still seeking state and local posts. So in the past eight years, the number of women in state legislatures has tripled, from 4 percent to 12 percent. In time, that increase should ripple thought higher circles of power...
...Haven on Saturday. Harvard and Yale will renew their un-paralleled rivalry for the 98th time. And for the 98th time, nothing else will matter for two-and-a-half late-autumn hours in the rarifield world inhabited by Crimson and Eli supporters--not other football games, not the Dow Jones Industrials, not any clear and present dangers...
SATURDAY. The Preakness. The 98th running of jewel two of the Triple Crown from Pimlico Track in Baltimore. Md. I have 5 smackers and a mint julep riding on Derby-winner Secretariat to take the first Triple Crown since 1948. My bookie predicts strong challenges from Sham and Impecunious. CH.7. 5 p.m. Color. Live...