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...good enough." The next day, Reagan met with Republican congressional leaders to reassure waverers, and received strong pledges of support. More important, he closeted himself for 45 minutes in the Roosevelt Room with 30 of the 47 members of the Conservative Democratic Forum, often called the Boll Weevils because nearly all of them are Southerners. They hold the balance of power...
...Boll Weevils fear big deficits and are thus not enthusiastic about major tax cuts: Reagan so far can count on support from no more than 20 of the 27 Democrats he will need to swing the vote for 5-10-10, assuming all House Republicans hold firm...
...White House, meanwhile, was pursuing another approach, one that had been successful in the budget battle. On Wednesday, Baker and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan held a well-publicized meeting with four members of the Conservative Democratic Forum, also known as the Boll Weevils because it comprises mainly Southern Democrats. This group had undercut Democratic Budget Committee Chairman Jim Jones by supporting the President's spending cuts. The Administration hoped that their visit might at least lead Rostenkowski to suspect that he too might be sandbagged...
...Boll Weevils refused to make any commitments. They told Baker and Regan that there was no consensus among Democratic conservatives and that they were hoping to support any compromise their party leadership could devise. So the Administration used Boll Weevil leaders to relay to Rostenkowski a "shopping list" of negotiable items. Among possible concessions: the first year cut could be reduced to 5% and delayed until October. Regan called Conable to say the meeting seemed a success. He had high hopes for the four Democrats. Said he: "They'll go for '5-10-10' and a couple...
...Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Heinrich Boll and 133 other prominent Europeans publicly petitioned Rome to ease up in its objections to married priests, birth control, divorce and mixed marriage (47% of German Catholics now marry outside their faith). Here and there on the tour picketers protested about abortion and birth control, or held such placards as Frauen zum Altar (women to the altar). At the Pope's last stop, Barbara Engl, speaking for Munich's Catholic youth league, attacked the church for constant "prohibitions" on "friendship, sexuality and partnership...