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Although Kohl himself is a staunch backer of the missiles, he improvised a sentence in his keynote speech to placate younger, skeptical C.D.U. members. "We belong to the peace movement," he declared. "And we want disarmament and detente." Kohl also agreed to let 500 jeans-sporting youths, some not party members, have a voice at the convention...
...supply-side economists and their supporters, who first sponsored the large tax cuts and budget reductions that President Reagan pushed through Congress earlier this year, are now saying that a return to gold would quickly bring down interest rates. North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, the Senate's leading backer of the yellow metal and author of a bill to restore the gold standard, claims that such action would reduce interest rates "to probably three or four percent...
...where many of them heard loud complaints about the level of interest rates. Said House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois: "We can't live with a 20% prime. Something has got to give in the next 90 days." Added California Republican John H. Rousselot, a strong Reagan backer: "On a crisis scale of one to ten, I'd say we're about seven and climbing...
...reasons of right, not might. He was under no illusion that Israel was, or ought to be, a military ally or that the U.S. was fostering an anti-Soviet "consensus" in the area. Arab hostility toward Israel, combined with Arab resentment of the U.S. as Israel's chief backer, has represented a major target of opportunity for the Soviets in the area ever since...
Topping an able cast, Backer and Weston give performances of impelling honesty. But the play lacks internal consistency of tone, and Allen has botched at least four essentials in the magic of theater-surprise, imagination, vision and revelation. -By T.E. Kalem