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That characteristically blunt comment sums up the Reagan Administration's side of an intensifying national debate about the President's plans to slash federal spending and taxes. As the draconian nature of the program has begun to sink in around the country, newspaper stories, TV shows and liberal critics in and out of Congress increasingly have portrayed the program as one that redistributes income from poor to rich-specifically by reducing benefits the needy have come to rely on while reserving the program's greatest tax savings for the already well-off. Implicit in much of this...
There is only one way to end the mindless violence of political assassins and that is to end the mindless violence that permeates so much of the rest of America. A society that allows capital punishment as a way to deal with crime; a government that uses the blunt threat of military force to solve its international problems; a nation that allows its citizens to carry deadly weapons with impunity--this is a society that begs for violence. Perhaps the shock of Monday's gunshots will start to convince Americans of all political persuasions that the time has come...
...jilted trade partners are understandably piqued. Said one Japanese businessman with characteristic understatement: "If China fails to solve the problem, the Japanese people will be very disappointed." A senior Bonn economics ministry official was more blunt: "When we sign contracts, we honor them, even if it is a tremendous hardship for us. We expect our business partners to do likewise." Only the prompt payment of "sufficient compensation" could alleviate "doubts about Chinese reliability," said Heinrich Weiss, the board chairman of Schloemann-Siemag...
With the Soviet Communist Party's 26th Congress set to open in Moscow this week, the public spat over Poland raised tensions between the Moscow and Rome Communists. Berlinguer made it clear that he would not bend before blunt Moscow messages. "We will stick to our road, whatever the initiatives or in comprehensions of other Communist parties might be," he told a crowd of Communist employees in Turin last week. Clearly that road would not lead to Mos cow. P.C.I, officials confirmed that Berlinguer, for the first time, would be absent from the Italian delegation at world Communism...
...hinder our progress, and everything that can be used to maintain the power and privilege of the Tory establishment must be swept away," exclaims far-left M.P. Eric Heffer. Heffer, 59, rejects the old British maxim that "the Labor Party owes more to Methodism than Marx." His view is blunt: "Marxism has been a more powerful influence...