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...high hopes that a vigorous selling campaign will bring Congress around to voting something close to the full Reagan package. That selling campaign is hindered by the President's inability for now to join it personally, but it is still going forward. Conservative groups are planning a blitz of direct mailings, speeches and TV ads to build pressure for the full Reagan program in the home districts of wavering Congressmen-especially conservative Democrats who hold the balance of power in the House. Bush is supposed to travel from Maine to California this week promoting the package. The hard decisions...
...policemen and housewives sifted through the scorched rubble in the South London neighborhood of Brixton last week, some oldtimers were reminded of the damage caused by the blitz in World War II. This time the damage was self-inflicted. For three nights, the crowded, hardscrabble neighborhood of 62,000 had been torn by the worst interracial rioting the country had ever experienced. Gangs of predominantly black West Indian youths hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at hundreds of riot police. Waves of other youngsters took part in an orgy of burning and looting By the time a tense calm finally returned...
...Democrats' program paid an ironic tribute to the change in the political climate wrought by Reagan's landslide election and the vigor of his budget blitz. The two documents are far more conservative than any group of Democrats would have approved even in January. Jones himself admits, "It really isn't a radical departure from the President's program." But the Democrats are trying to reverse the two parties' traditional roles by painting themselves as the champions of budget balancing and by picturing the Republicans as irresponsible tax slashers who are voicing "faith...
...Social Democrats launch a media blitz...
...roots organization or detailed policies. Last week it announced a vague list of "twelve tasks," including a commitment to flexible wage and price controls, a mixed economy and nuclear defense. The S.D.P. leaders hope to capitalize on their early momentum and have budgeted $385,000 for a major media blitz. Their immediate aim is to swell the party's rolls-and coffers-by selling $20 annual memberships. Even before the launch, some 20,000 people contributed to the cause and another 10,000 signed up last Thursday...