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...explosive growth of federal spending. In his TV speech, he reiterated his familiar pledge to recommend a 10% slash in income tax rates in each of the next three years, plus more generous depreciation allowances for business, and insisted that the reductions must not be held up to await the outcome of the congressional budget debate...
When the meeting broke up Saturday night, it was decided to reconvene in New York on Sunday morning to await instructions from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. The State Department offered to fly the bankers there on a Government plane, but bank lawyers complained that it might create conflicts of interest for the negotiators to receive special treatment. Therefore, many participants took the Eastern Air Lines shuttle up to New York...
Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 journalists gathered at the Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden and at nearby Rhein-Main airport in Frankfurt to await the captives. Each TV network had at least 50 people on hand, some from as far away as Bangkok and Johannesburg. Studios had been set up in the Frankfurt-Sheraton Hotel last October, when it looked as though the hostages would be freed. Said Thomas Cheatham, NBC'S Israel bureau chief, who had been standing by in West Germany for the past four months: "A minimum figure for the watch here alone would be well over...
Princeton coach Norm Peck and Crimson assistant Mark Panarese retired to the locker room to await the final results--the pressure had proved too great to bear. The opponents commiserated watching the decisive battle, a five-game, seesawing, gut-wrenching match involving Harvard's Chip Robie, who had suffered from the flu all week. The Crimson racquetmen wondered whether he had the stamina to go the distance with stubborn Tiger Jason Fish...
...government officials say they can retain control, at least over the major cities, with continued U.S. support. Neither side has reported great progress. Anticipating a change in the military and political situation when Reagan, as expected, escalates arms sales to the Duarte government, both sides in the battle await the move from Washington...