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...antagonists even use the language of the battlefield. "Everybody's waiting in the trenches," said California Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta about impending votes on Capitol Hill. A White House aide sounded last week like a lecturer at a war college: "When we could pick where and when we wanted to fight, when we could direct set-piece campaigns in which we could mobilize all the White House resources, we never lost a major battle--tax cuts, budget, AWACS, MX missiles. In the past we used to fight one battle at a time in one House of Congress. Now we have...
...scope. At Stanford University last week, some 250 students and faculty demonstrated against the presence of a Playboy magazine representative shopping for willing student bodies for a picture spread called "Girls of the PAC-10." At the University of Texas at Austin, 2,000 students marched to the state capitol building to protest a proposed tuition hike. The Reagan Administration's proposed 20% cut in student loans and grants, which has stimulated protests, also seems to have catalyzed more general student dissent and discontent...
...speech that attracted considerable attention on Capitol Hill, Aspin told the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, "If Democrats want to spend the rest of their careers writing op-ed pieces and giving lectures at universities, then we can continue to stroke our antidefense image. But if we want to make defense policy in the White House and the Pentagon, then we had better stand for something." The party should point to some areas that need increased military spending, Aspin said, and should construct a positive defense policy around issues such as Pentagon reform. "The voters are not attracted to national...
Republicans on Capitol Hill oppose so many foreign aid programs as wasteful giveaways that Congress has been unable to pass an overall assistance package since 1981. Instead, aid programs have been approved piecemeal, usually as riders on unrelated bills. Last week, however, the House handily passed a $12.6 billion foreign aid bill, with strong Republican support. Reason: the bill was studded with G.O.P.-sponsored amendments aimed at turning up the heat on Communist and other far-leftist regimes around the world...
...criticisms have their contradictory side: on Capitol Hill, Republicans as well as Democrats denounce Regan for steering the President into an overly combative approach, but the Republicans in almost the same breath go on to accuse him of engineering a ruinous attempt at compromise on the budget. Asked his opinion of Regan, one Republican Senator rolls his eyes and mutters, "Disaster. We go down the tubes if he takes over." Republican Senator Robert Dole carefully chose his words last week on ABC's Good Morning America when asked about the job of getting a budget compromise. "We know...