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...White House staff was incensed by the bolt of the conservatives on the Senate Budget Committee. The conservatives are seeking some assurance that the President will recommend spending cuts, beyond those already demanded for fiscal 1982, large enough to keep the budget from toppling into intolerable deficits in later years if Reagan's tax cuts are enacted. Although the White House wants the conservatives back in line, it is not ready to tell them what future reductions are in store. In fact, Reagan's top aides have not decided what further cuts they might recommend. Some targets...
...deep that fear runs: the Senate Budget Committee last week estimated that Reagan's spending and tax plans taken together would produce a near record $60 billion deficit in fiscal 1982, or $10 billion above even Jones' figure. That chilling estimate prompted the three conservative Republicans to bolt. Said Defector William Armstrong of Colorado: "The only way we could salve our consciences and vote for the '82 [Reagan] budget was to show credibly that we were on the path to a balanced budget. We are not on that path...
April 13, 6:25 p.m.--Police arrested two juveniles for trespassing and possession of burglary tools. The youths were caught near a bike rack in the Quincy House yard with a pair of bolt cutters...
...black as those of his soldiers. But beneath his cap a streak of bright green flows, like blood from a saber wound, down the temple, blinding the right eye, grazing the mustache. His naked sword is fastened to his knee, but someone has broken it off just below the bolt...
...when two young white men pounded on their door. "You come out here," one said to Nunnally. "We don't want the woman. We want you." Peering out, Nunnally thought he saw one of the men holding a rope or chain. As they pulled on the door, breaking its bolt, Nunnally grabbed a gun and fired through a curtained door window...