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Comic as the scene appeared, the tinny noise and dimmed chamber were depressingly apt metaphors for the goings-on in official Washington. In a spectacle of cross-accusations and intraparty squabbling that was politically bloody even by the capital's standards, legislators and Ronald Reagan finally reached agreement on a budget resolution that set spending targets for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Senate and House negotiators worked late into the night, and Reagan, in one spectacular heave, sandbagged the Senate leadership of his own party. Almost no one was happy with the watered-down document that emerged, and everyone...
Even when fending off costly verdicts, newspapers are apt to feel besmirched by libel trials. The prudent course would be to mollify an aggrieved party before he sues, but just the opposite usually happens: a person who calls a newspaper to ask for a retraction or a correction finds his call impatiently shunted around the newsroom by people busy getting out the next edition. He was hurt and upset when he placed the call; when he hangs up he is angry and ready to sue. What began as a "golden opportunity for the press" ends...
Although he has not appreciably altered basic Soviet foreign policy, Gorbachev has made a key change at the top. A notable absence at the summit is apt to be Andrei Gromyko, a fixture of U.S.-Soviet negotiations for four decades, who has been eased out of the Foreign Minister's job into the largely ceremonial position of President of the U.S.S.R. Although other veterans are likely to follow Gromyko out the door, many have survived previous shifts in Soviet leadership by developing expertise that successive leaders have found invaluable...
...investment, to be voted on in 18 months if President Reagan judges that the progress toward breaking down apartheid is still inadequate. For another, nothing in prospect seems likely to still the clamor of those advocating a complete U.S. economic pull-out from South Africa. That clamor is apt to grow in the fall as students return to university campuses for a new semester and, probably, new demonstrations...
...Dream”, the latest single from Dizzee Rascal’s sophomore album Showtime, is so good it’s apt to inspire a religion. I kid you not: this video will flush the scales from your eyes and show you a better...