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Other strains have begun to show within the Administration's policymaking apparatus. Last week Treasury Under Secretary Norman Ture, a leading proponent of supply-side economics as well as a principal architect of Reagan's 25% three-year tax cut, resigned for personal financial reasons. He follows Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, as the second top supply-sider to leave the Administration this year. Said Ture of his resignation, in an ironic reference to the problems of the U.S. economy as a whole: "My outgoings are greater than my income...
Last year Fahd was the architect of an eight-point peace plan for the Middle East. The plan called for the withdrawal of Israel to its pre-1967 boundaries, for the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and for the right of "all states in the region" to live in peace. Implicitly, Fahd had become one of the first Arab leaders outside Egypt to offer to recognize Israel's right to exist. President Reagan praised the plan as a "hopeful sign," but it was flatly rejected by Israel...
...also want to put unsightly security equipment under one roof and conceal it as much as possible. The only practical alternative to the planned new gatehouse was to enclose the portico or porte-cochere. But that seemed aesthetically incompatible with the work of James Hoban, the original White House architect, and McKim, Mead and White, the renovators of the historic building...
Hoban, an Irish-born architect who practiced in Charleston, S.C. and planned the South Carolina statehouse, was the winner of the 1792 design competition for the proposed new White House. One of those he triumphed over was Thomas Jefferson, who had submitted his entry anonymously. Hoban's vision of the President's house was influenced by one of the finest examples of the English Palladian style, the famous Dublin mansion of the Duke of Leinster...
...Great Helmsman Mao is the architect of catastrophe in both books. His hatred of a bureaucratic elite inspired callow Red Guards to disrupt all order in China, while his contempt for intellectuals lobotomized the finest minds of the nation. The irony of the Cultural Revolution was that it massacred Yet Mao's greatest error was his encouragement of China's population explosion. In three decades of Communist rule, the population has nearly doubled. This increase of 450 million equals the population of the U.S. and Western Europe. As a result, the actual strides in industry, agriculture and public...