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Much to the chagrin of the White House, one of the loudest complaints about some of the proposed budget reductions has come from within the Administration itself...
...also dangerous. Congress now has all the discipline of a five-year-old's birthday party. Toby Moffett, 34, a Democratic Connecticut Congressman who was not even a member of the party until a couple of weeks before he filed in 1974, remarks with some chagrin: "We get to Washington and we're not prone to look for leadership the way they used to. We don't owe anybody anything." With several hundred different ideas caroming around the Capitol about how to handle energy or inflation, it is difficult to make policy. It is also much harder...
...Weizman's chagrin, the Cabinet rejected the proposal because the linkage between the Israeli-Egyptian treaty and broader peace negotiations was too strong. The document called for the two nations to begin practical negotiations on Palestinian self-government within a month of the treaty's signing. Six months later, general elections were to be held on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that would set up a functioning Palestinian administrative council...
...thinks lumping math in with science allows students to avoid taking one or the other. Harvard's Core task force, chaired by James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, originally called for a separate math requirement, but the suggestion was defeated in the final version, much to the chagrin of science professors...
Whatever the source of his chagrin, Gicquel was soon out-Cronkiting Cronkite. The somber, chain-smoking Frenchman has brought an unprecedented measure of subtle and sometimes anti-government editorializing to French TV news-to the chagrin of about 75 viewers each week who write him to protest. He delivers himself of stronger opinions off-camera. Last year he produced a serious book about the impact of TV on French society. Called Violence and Fear, it has become a bestseller...