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Kennedy has revised his strategies in other areas. "Proposition 13 was a watershed for us too," said one of his aides. Despite the big hoots he made every other week against Jimmy Carter's budget cuts, Kennedy accepted the President's overall spending totals, including the $29 billion deficit. He saw the political realities and the appeal of reduced spending, like everybody else. But like that of no one else in U.S. politics, Kennedy's appeal transcends ideology and so his new fiscal posture has caused little change in his superliberal reputation. His disagreements with Carter over...
Thus Kennedy views himself as standing for Big Government-where health and safety are involved, for example-but also for a freer marketplace. Some of his Republican counterparts view Kennedy in much the same mixed way. Says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a conservative who often needles Kennedy about his forays to the right: "Ted has no experience or confidence in local government. He still thinks all the competency is in Washington." G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable also casts Kennedy as a centrist, a Big Government man but one who has stayed well within the mainstream of his own party. "Kennedy...
...first time in five years, Britain has a majority government that appears capable of ruling the country for a full five-year term. That electoral stability allows Thatcher to confront the unions head on?if she so chooses. The big question facing Britain now is whether the determined Iron Lady, having gained the pinnacle of political success, will act according to the sharp words that sometimes marked her campaign rhetoric, or the conciliatory ones of St. Francis that she quoted so movingly on the doorstep...
...feel we are bearing our proper share. Certainly our troops aren't properly equipped, they haven't got the proper supplies. We shall have an independent nuclear deterrent. Precisely what that deterrent will be is obviously a matter for further consideration. But the Russians have the big SS-8, -19 and -20 movable ballistic missiles, which are not in SALT. We have to have our deterrent to that. I'm very much for three deterrents: American, ours and the French. It's very much better than...
Greenland is beautiful but barren. Fifty times as big as Denmark, which has ruled it since 1721, it is 85% covered by an icecap up to two miles thick. The rest is rocky terrain virtually devoid of vegetation. On the shores, steep granite and basalt cliffs plunge into ice-choked fjords. Polar bears prowl the far north, reindeer roam the western coastal mountains, and a few hardy sheep are herded in the far south...