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...indication we will be reaching our unemployment target of less than 7% before the end of the year [The rate was 7.3% in March]. Pulling out the rebate does not leave a gap." Bert Lance, director of the Office of Management and Budget, warned: "I do not think current cir cumstances call for any attempt to make up for the current [spending] shortfall through crash attempts to spend more money...
...cast boasts no identifiable names, but the faces are familiar, mostly from television commercials. All the actors - Peter Brocco, Frances Fuller, William Hansen. Ruth McDevitt, Paula Trueman, Ian Wolfe - muster up a dignity that is touching under the cir cumstances. The key question, really, is not even why or how this movie was made, but for whom...
Defense spending has been increased 38% above last year's $716 million. Cir cumventing a British arms embargo, South Africa bought 41 British-made Centurions and Tigercat antiaircraft missiles from Jordan. For the first time, the armed forces are organizing battal ions of black, colored and Asian soldiers, and women are being encouraged to en list for rear-echelon duty...
...superb earlier novels (The First Cir cle, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Cancer Ward) were fiction alized reflections of that experience. In the first two parts of Gulag, however, he set out to document the entire range of horrors inflicted upon the Soviet people from 1918 to 1956. A 260,000-word mosaic, composed of personal reminiscences, interviews with survivors, and documents, Gulag lays out the intricate patterns of terror...
...said the master, "I decided to copy myself." Still, the familiar long cardigans (including one bejeweled evening affair costing $3,000), belted jackets and floppy pants, and YSL trench coats-all further elongated by appearing over 4-in. heels-never looked better. For evening, St. Laurent recommended slinky ciré dresses and one-shouldered georgette gowns, many set off by gold and copper snakehead jewelry. The color emphasis was what might be called old-lady chic-gun-metal grays and faded prunes...