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Even while making those oblique concessions, Botha seemed more interested in broadcasting defiance than in stressing the changes that his government would countenance. "I am not prepared to lead white South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide," he declared. He issued a blunt warning to foreign governments pressing Pretoria to change. Said he: "Don't push...
...short. Weinberger has acquired new critics within the Administration by opposing the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction proposal, which the President supports despite its provisions for cutting military spending. The Secretary's credibility on Capitol Hill has shrunk to the point where Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater bluntly told Weinberger at his most recent appearance, "You haven't answered any of our questions." Yet Reagan seemingly retains faith in his longtime and unquestionably loyal associate. When asked in Geneva whether he had any plans to fire Weinberger, the President responded with a blunt "Hell, no!" That is the only...
...blunt book The Immigration Time Bomb, Colorado Governor Richard Lamm argues that the U.S. must enforce its borders and discourage the "divisiveness of pluralism." Public agitation over immigration also fuels the plot of Lamm's 1988, a political novel that envisions a motley conspiracy to place a third-party candidate, a former Texas Governor, in the White House. Co-Author Arnold Grossman is a campaign media packager, and so is the book's hero. The narrative begins with the claim that "given a large enough budget and enough creative genius, Colonel Qaddafi could get himself elected president." Voters...
Many businessmen last week agreed with a blunt assessment by White House Domestic Policy Adviser John Svahn, who was quoted as calling the Ways and Means plan a "Thanksgiving turkey." While Reagan planned to increase business taxes by about $123 billion over the next five years, the Ways and Means proposal aims to boost that collection by an additional $15 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was so discouraged with the bill that it called for a postponement of any effort at tax reform for two years. "It has gotten too far from its original objectives, and it's time...
Insurgent leaders say that with the breakdown of peace talks a year ago, they are even more intent on waging a prolonged conflict designed to destabilize the Duarte government and sap military morale. Their tactics, as detailed by a top E.R.P. official in Morazán, will be as blunt and brutal as ever: urban warfare, including kidnapings like that last fall of Duarte's daughter Inés; economic sabotage, like blowing up power stations; and the outright murder of U.S. advisers and officials. "In the long run, killing Yanquis is a form of undermining Reagan's policies," declared the rebel...