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...point he said. We were facing a genuinely severe crisis of truly historic magnitude [in Iran] but had scored successes in normalization of relations with China the Camp David peace accord and the Panama Canal Treaties...
...assertion to Congress: "I will not ask you to try to balance the budget on the backs of the American taxpayer." But last week he was stressing moderation and an appeal for bipartisan cooperation. To the Republican contributors at the Percy dinner, Reagan held up as a model the accord worked out among the White House, the National Commission on Social Security Reform and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, even though it includes huge tax increases. "Yes, it involves necessary compromise," said Reagan. "We must now seek similar answers to other problems weighing on our economy...
...Director David Stockman and other Administration officials to hammer out a package of compromises. Half a block away, at the commission's offices, five conservative members, headed by Republican Senator William Armstrong of Colorado, chairman of the Senate Social Security Subcommittee, held sessions aimed at countering the emerging accord, which, they charged, relied too heavily on new taxes and too little on spending cuts. Greenspan, who had assumed the role of mediator in the panel's past imbroglios, scurried between the two camps, urging concessions. Armstrong, Republican Congressman Bill Archer of Texas and Democratic former Congressman Joe Waggoner...
...past five months, U.S. and Chinese officials have sat through four rounds of discussions in Peking to replace the two-year accord on textile shipments that expired Dec. 31. When the U.S. warned that it would unilaterally impose its own quotas if an agreement could not be reached, Chinese officials promptly threatened retaliation (possibly with cutbacks on imports of American agricultural products). Last week the talks finally collapsed, and the new one-sided quota went into effect. On leaving Peking, Peter Murphy, the chief U.S. negotiator, tried to strike an optimistic note. Said he: "The Chinese are not yet anywhere...
Executives of the two papers display little of the courteous approval that journalists typically accord competitors. News Editor William Giles, 55, calls the featurish Free Press "superficial, flighty and frilly." Lawrence says that Giles' paper, which earnestly stresses hard news, is "dull, bland and less complete than the Free Press." Giles and Lawrence live just a block away from each other in suburban Grosse Pointe Park, but as Lawrence dryly observes, "We have certainly not had the opportunity to become close friends...