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...first seven months of 1986 they actually declined .2%) has had uneven regional effects. % Overall stability has masked what a Reagan Administration official calls a "worldwide deflation" in commodity prices that has struck hard at farmers. More recently, the collapse of oil prices has depressed states in the energy belt from Colorado to Louisiana...
...galls the press. White House stage managers have accordingly become adept at finding appropriate soapboxes and visual backdrops for the President, a series of Potemkin villages not to deceive a ruler but to catch the restless eye of his subjects. When Reagan worries about Republican defections in the farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown out to a state fair in Illinois, where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show of concern about the Middle East? Vice President Bush travels to see the friendlies in Israel, Jordan and Egypt...
...safety on the highways, "buckle up" may no longer be sound advice in every situation. When the National Transportation Safety Board began an investigation in 1984 on seat-belt performance, a surprising pattern emerged: backseat passengers who had used lap belts suffered more serious and fatal injuries in head-on collisions than did those with no restraints at all. The NTSB has called on the Department of Transportation to require shoulder harnesses in the backseats of new cars, a regulation that could take effect by the end of the year...
...years following World War II, the French Communists regularly won 20% or more of the vote and dominated a section around Paris known as the Red Belt. But in parliamentary elections in March the Communists got just 9.8% of the vote. French Party Boss Georges Marchais, who polled 15% when he ran for President in 1981, has decided not to run in the 1988 elections...
Before it was even enacted it was something of a joke, laughingly likened to the girl who, unable to say no, buys a chastity belt and throws away the key. In December, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed into law, the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Cast as an amendment to a measure raising the U.S. debt ceiling above $2 trillion, Gramm-Rudman was the sugarcoating to help embarrassed Congressmen swallow that gargantuan figure. The law required that annual federal deficits, now hovering at the $200 billion level, be reduced in stages...