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...staff. Being overshadowed by the boy wonder (Stockman is 34) at OMB did not help matters and led to what Regan called "demeaning" press speculation about a rivalry between the two. In fact, the pair clashed openly only once-in May, when Stockman made a statement that seemed to contradict Regan's no-compromise stance on the President's tax cuts. Notorious at Merrill Lynch for his explosive Irish temper, Regan retaliated. With White House approval, he called in several reporters and told them: "This is where you'll hear about Administration tax thinking. If you hear...
Charging that United States companies which operate in South Africa "contradict our tradition of liberal democracy and justice," Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) yesterday called upon students to demand that the University adopt a stronger divestiture policy...
...generation of dissidents (especially those involved in Jewish emigration) makes different demands than their predecessors. They are no longer trying to change the Soviet system or to influence internal policies--they are simply asking to leave. They are not political in any oppositional sense. In fact the contradict the very philosophy of the human rights movement which is based on civil disobedience. Because they represent no direct threat to the Soviets, their captivity is difficult to defend and represents complete disregard for the rights...
...Foreign Relations Committee. After more than nine hours of talks with the highest Soviet leaders in Moscow, Percy predicted that the two nations would soon be discussing arms control again. Brezhnev and Reagan, he said, were sending "signals to each other ... in a sense through me." But then, to contradict such euphoria, "parts" of highly classified cables to the State Department from Ambassador to Moscow Thomas Watson, who had sat in on the talks, were "made available to the New York Times." The cables made the Soviets seem less eager to resume SALT. They added the piquant news that Percy...
...also learned that the West adheres to certain perceptions of Cambodia, which a first-hand viewpoint contradict...