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...angriest response to the decision came from Reagan's fellow conservatives. Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa accused Reagan of breaking the statutory U.S. defense commitments guaranteed by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979. California Senator S.I. Hayakawa charged the President with "kowtowing to Peking." Said Senator John East of North Carolina: "I'm very troubled by this Taiwan thing. It's very disconcerting." Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Reagan's most militant and influential critic on the right, suggested that aides were prompting Reagan to "imitate" the "disastrous foreign policies of Carter and Kissinger...
Perhaps the angriest reaction came from Israel's main ally, the U.S. At week's end, the State Department declared that in retribution it was suspending the U.S.-Israeli agreement on strategic cooperation signed in Washington just three weeks previously. Technical talks scheduled for January to spell out practical details of the agreement will not take place...
...debate in the House of Representatives was the angriest in ages. Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas shook the rafters with an accusation that the Reagan Administration wanted Congress to "lie down submissively" and let it "dictate every last scintilla" of the 1982 budget. Republican Leader Robert Michel blasted back that the only amendments the majority Democrats wanted to let his party offer to the budget bill were "bastards of the worst order for which we disown any parental responsibility." The vote, on a key procedural test, was suspensefully close: 217 to 210, with 29 Democrats breaking party ranks...
...scene early in the book sets Kingston off on her imaginative quest. As a young girl, the author watches her father at work in his laundry in Stockton, Calif. Trained as a scholar in China, he is subject to black moods and bitterness over his low estate. His angriest curses vilify women's bodies. The girl both understands and is bewildered. She addresses him in memory: "We knew that it was to feed us you had to endure demons and physical labor." But she adds: "What I want from you is for you to tell me that those curses...
...mystic attitude is detachment?serenity in accepting and preaching God's will. He does feel emotion; intimates insist that with students and his family, he weeps, laughs and even cracks jokes. In public, however, Khomeini will not permit himself to display joy, sorrow, rage or any other emotion. His angriest words are delivered in a soft, uninflected voice that seldom rises above a murmur...