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...have been banned from television and radio, and the warning on packs of cigarettes has escalated from a modest "may be hazardous to your health" in 1970, to the current "Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health." That notice may become even blunter. Last week's report from Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was the most serious indictment of smoking yet made. The conclusion: "Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief preventable cause of death in our society and the most important public health issue of our time...
...corporate tax revenues will be lost as a result of Reagan's tax program. The net effect, charged Brown, is that of a "shell game" that "shifts the burden of federal cutbacks to state and local government." Bill Krause, aide to Wisconsin's Dreyfus, was even blunter: "We aren't getting more powers, just more bills. Shift and shaft...
...million in American arms to Taiwan. Peking said very little then, but the strident language emanating from the Chinese these days marks a significant change in attitude. Before Secretary of State Alexander Haig's visit to Peking in June, the Chinese issued a series of warnings, each blunter than the one before, expressing opposition to American arms sales to Taiwan. The outcry culminated in a front-page declaration by the People's Daily, saying that "if the U.S. sells arms to Taiwan again, China will inevitably make a strong response...
...that for the nuns, and even her school mates, her new, deep faith is not good enough. The nuns, who can be shrewd judges of young folly and vanity, some times excuse minor infractions because they feel it takes generations to make their kind of Catholic. The girls are blunter. "When I die," says one beautiful young aristocrat, "my great uncle Cardinal de Wesseldorf and my great-great aunt the Carmelite Abbess de Wesseldorf, who had an affair with Napoleon before she entered, will say to the recording angel: 'My dear sir, you can't seriously send...
Democrats in the Senate were blunter. "Except for his anti-Soviet reflexes, this President has no foreign policy," said Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. Stormed Alan Cranston of California: "Reagan doesn't have a policy on nuclear nonproliferation. He doesn't have a policy on arms limitations. He's clearly groping for a Mideast policy. He has no human rights policy, and may never have one now. His policy on El Salvador-first he blew it up, then he blew it down. His policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere. This Administration desperately needs a sense...