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...under Reagan: the men with metal detectors are new, and the Reagan White House ordered armored cars, which the Carter Administration declined to buy. Some White House aides believe security has become excessive, but after the attempt on Reagan's life, no one is about to propose a cutback. Aides see little room for economy. In the President's personal party, grumbles one, "there are too many strap hangers. They all want to go because of the prestige and perks." But leaving a few in Washington would save only paltry sums...
...other apparent justification for the storage cutback--that unclaimed belongings have often rendered squash courts and other rooms unusable--hardly seems a reason for scrapping storage. Rather, it may suggest the need for more binding in-House deadlines governing the removal of student items. And those who object to storage because they find grimy storage areas aesthetically undesirable--as some administrators have said they do--should look elsewhere for visual satisfaction...
...government of President Shehu Shagari has belatedly taken some steps to curb spending and slow the runaway growth of the corrupt and bloated Nigerian bureaucracy. The Shagari government in December proposed a 12% cutback in government spending from 1981 levels. Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls...
...central goal of the movement is to educate the public to the true horrors of what war would mean to the U.S. and the world today, and thereby put pressure on a hawkish Administration to negotiate a cutback in nuclear arms with the Soviet Union. Some of that prodding is already coming from Congress. Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Mark Hatfield of Oregon two weeks ago introduced a resolution that calls for a freeze on the testing, production and further deployment of nuclear weapons by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The nonbinding measure has already attracted...
Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 17, a news ticker spelled out new complications. The Arab oil producers had just announced an immediate production cutback of 5%, to be followed by monthly cutbacks of 5% until Israel withdrew to the 1967 frontiers. We were so focused on the danger of an embargo that we thought the production cutback largely symbolic. It was?but it had revolutionary implications. As it became progressively evident that the producer cartel could set prices nearly arbitrarily by manipulating production, a new phase of postwar history began...