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KING'S INSISTENCE on the following the most optimistic projections, for both Reagan's programs and his own, has already made Massachusetts suffer. He has said "we can swallow" the chronic deficits in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority budget. Yet subway fares have tripled in the past four years. He notes proudly a fall in welfare caseloads. But the success of this crusade has resulted not from a healthier economy, but from sticter requirements for qualification...
...more expensive than they should be, they cost far more than was ever remotely anticipated. The expense of 50 major weapons currently being developed has leaped an average of 118% over earlier projections. Unanticipated inflation is responsible for about 70% of the cost overruns, a problem aggravated by chronic delays in production times. The rest is essentially due to the fact that the Pentagon and its contractors design and redesign weapons with little regard for time or money. Reagan wants to spend 36% more for weapons next year, increasing procurement from $66 billion to $90 billion. The shopping list...
...managed to renew their differences only weeks after National Security Adviser William Clark was installed to help avoid such conflict. Weinberger has consistently argued for revoking the licenses and invoking even stronger restrictions on East-West trade to ensure that Western technology is "not exploited to make good the chronic deficiencies of the Communist system." Weinberger, who is especially critical of the European allies' involvement in the Soviet pipeline, sharpened his criticism in a 324-page message sent to Congress during his stay in Saudi Arabia last week. Said he: "No defense policy could succeed in the long...
...good reviews Clark has been getting during his debut period carry some caveats between the lines. Like Reagan, he has never been accused of being an intellectual. His move to the White House improved a messy operation but has done nothing to redress another chronic problem: the Administration's lack of a strategic world view...
...resuscitation: readings on a monitor, the color of an oxygen mask, the number of electric shocks administered, the exact position of doctors around the table and what they talked about (in one case, golf). These memories, Sabom found, conformed precisely with doctors' accounts. Was it possible that some chronic cardiac patients were simply familiar enough with CPR procedures (from experience and television) to fantasize accurately about what took place? Sabom put this to the test by asking longtime heart patients who had not had NDEs to describe such procedures. Twenty out of 23 made major errors in their accounts...