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Reagan's chances of winning the budget struggle have not been enhanced by last week's reverses. The uproar over Bitburg seems to be perceptibly, if perhaps temporarily, lowering the President's popularity. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week, 52% of respondents wished Reagan would cancel his visit to the Bitburg cemetery, which contains the graves of 2,000 German soldiers, most of them killed during World War II, including 49 members of the Waffen SS, the combat branch of Hitler's murderous elite guard. Reagan's overall job-approval rating in the same poll dropped...
When the President returns to Washington this week from his Easter break, his plans may once again be reconsidered. Aides say that he might add a visit to a German synagogue "to balance" his itinerary, or cancel the cemetery stop. Nonetheless, the unsettling series of decisions and statements emanating from the White House will make it difficult for Reagan to assuage the indignation he has aroused...
Madrid police were not discounting the possibility that the blast was the work of a group opposed to U.S. or North Atlantic Treaty Organization policies. Such groups have threatened to stage a demonstration to urge the Spanish government to cancel President Reagan's planned visit to Spain next month...
Members of the committee suggested negotiating with Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the University subsidiary which manages the property, to limit or cancel the increase for undergraduates...
...Andropov seized that policy and made it his own. He issued a series of proposals that were almost Reaganesque in the alluring way in which they combined simplicity and ingenuity. He played numbers games with the European nuclear balance, promising subtractions from the Soviet side if the U.S. would cancel the addition of its own missiles; he offered an equation that was supposed to yield equality, but in fact would have left the Soviet Union with a significant advantage in key categories of weaponry and would have succeeded in keeping the U.S. from deploying any offsetting weapons...