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...Hall's headlong rush to execute RUS, a move it wouldn't have dared to take just five years ago? Countless minority groups outside of Harvard have failed to capitalize on early successes and were stymied as their solidarity withered away. Black strugglers for equality, anti-war protestors and ardent feminists all had their places in the sun in the early 1960s, mid 1960s, and early 1970s, respectively. Yet to varying degree, each group foundered after its initial breakthrough...
Israel's public relations abroad, thanks to its perceived belligerence, have sunk to an all-time low. The nation has, of course, surmounted bad press in the past, but now even some of its most ardent supporters have their doubts. The financial and military backing that Israel needs from other nations could wane, and anti-Semitic terrorists could easily mistake the growing skepticism of Israeli actions with support of their horrible anti-Jewish bombings, like the recent ones in France...
...deficits over the next three years could reach $500 billion if no adjustments were made in his program. In order to keep at bay this looming behemoth and bring interest rates down, Reagan accepted the need to raise new revenues. This pitted him against some of his usually most ardent supporters, like Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, who argue the supply-side theory that only by reducing taxes can the economy expand. The dispute, said Kemp, was "a historic clash of ideas...
...Hollywood's all-American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday in New York. A few years later, her then husband Roger Vadim retooled her into a European sex symbol as Barbarella. By the early '70s she was a scrawny, scraggly Hanoi Jane, the ardent activist who visited the Viet Cong, turned up at Black Panther rallies, and cheered on the Indians who occupied Alcatraz, earning contumely for herself and an Oscar for her performance in Klute...
...Capitol Hill, Reagan's emerging nemesis is Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, the ardent supply-sider who was a main designer of the Administration's three-year 25% income tax cut passed a year ago. Kemp insists that he is not against Reagan himself or his policies overall, only the President's abandonment of tax-cutting supply-side doctrine. The smooth, good-looking lawmaker is trying to stir up opposition to the tax plan both in Congress and among outside lobbyists...