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...will the breakdown in talks affect a recessionary economy staggered by high interest rates and an unemployment rate that this week threatens to exceed the postwar record...
Afterward, all parties agreed that "basic philosophical differences" had been responsible for the breakdown. Democrats came away convinced that the President sincerely believes his economic policy is not only succeeding but is fair to everyone. Recalled Boiling: "He was friendly, persuasive, forceful, completely committed to his program and absolutely sure he wasn't hurting anybody." The Democrats consider the President's attitude naive and even a little frightening...
...sales breakdown by name plates showed an even grimmer picture. The Chevrolet division of General Motors, for example, sold a mere 38,104 vehicles. The March figure was 61.1% below the same period a year earlier and could be a harbinger of Chevy's worst year since 1958. The division is now selling about 1.3 milion cars annually; its best year ever was in 1965, when it sold 2.4 million...
...suggested that Columbia was showing all the symptoms of a used car. Not so, replied Houston Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, adding, "If it's acting like a used car, I'd like to own it." In fact, Columbia's glitches, with the exception of the radio breakdown, were all relatively minor, and it was unfortunate that they obscured the mission's true importance. By making a record-breaking third voyage into space, Columbia was providing stunning proof of NASA's basic vision: that the U.S. could build and operate a spacecraft capable of moving...
...blame for the decline in East-West relations does not lie entirely with the Soviets. Congressional meddling in foreign policy and the collapse of presidential authority during Watergate contributed to the breakdown of detente in the mid-'70s. The inconsistency and ineptitude of the Carter Administration made a bad situation worse. Then the Reagan Administration came into office with stubborn, simple-minded prejudices against arms control, unrealistic ambitions for massive rearmament, and a propensity for bellicose rhetoric that has frightened its allies and its own citizens more than it has restrained its adversaries. Administration officials have made numerous statements suggesting...