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Even the most modest steps toward returning power to the states will doubtless provoke a severe clash between Reagan and Congress, a confrontation that already seems to be brewing. House committees last week not only ignored the Administration's block-grant philosophy, but, according to Office of Management and Budget officials, also made "phony, even fraudulent" spending cuts that will inevitably be reversed-such as the elimination of 10,000 post offices. The solution being considered at OMB: introducing in Congress a detailed, 4,000-page Administration alternative to the House Budget Committee's reconciliation package, complete with...
...that "a national academy of corrections" be created to help train prison personnel "for the sensitive role they should perform." Burger admitted that his proposals might not, in the end, really succeed in helping more released prisoners go straight, but, he pleaded, "we must try." Burger's proposals clash with the experience of most penal officials, who have virtually abandoned rehabilitation as a practical possibility in prisons...
...question already emerging from the brief spell of this company's residence at Harvard is neither artistic--are the shows good or bad?--nor academic--do the courses do their job? It lies between these two concerns, in a grey area where the professional and academic ideals of theater clash...
...Christian Phalangist forces in Lebanon would cede control of the eastern city of Zahle to Lebanese army regulars. This would allow both the Christians and the Syrians to disengage from their battle for control of the city, the clash that had provoked the latest crisis...
...parties' philosophies clash most sharply in their vision of what Israel is and what the place of the occupied territories should be in Israel's future. At the heart of the issue are the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tellingly, most Israelis refer to the West Bank by the biblical regional names that Begin made fashionable: Judea and Samaria. Begin, in fact, would like to add them to the permanent map of the country, as part of the state of Israel. According to its official policy, the Likud would offer "full autonomy" to the Arab population. The hyperbolic...