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...reductions in planned defense spending. Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, fumed that the Pentagon will have "less in the way of defense capability than even Jimmy Carter projected." That was clearly not true, but other legislators voiced valid worries about how the defense cutback would mesh with Reagan's foreign policy. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine: "You can't tell the Soviets you will outspend them in an arms race if they won't negotiate, then propose defense reductions and still believe Moscow will sit down to bargain anyway...
...learned more than a year ago that PATCO seemed determined to strike in 1981, requires each airline operating at a major airport to reduce its flights by a specified percentage that varies with every hour of the day. At New York's La Guardia, for example, the cutback jumps from 27% between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. to 49% in the following hour. At Chicago's O'Hare, the heaviest reduction, 60%, is between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Each airline is free to cancel any flights it wishes to stay within the FAA limits. Understandably, airlines...
...never hit a consistent editorial stride; at first it was so badly organized that it was hard to find regular features. Says one former staffer: "They started Tonight on Aug. 18. By Labor Day it was clear that management was already uncomfortable with the paper." Tonight underwent a major cutback and editorial overhaul in June, when Felker departed. Some of the paper's special sections were cut in half and distribution to outlying suburban areas was curtailed. As Hunt put it later: "Storm clouds were coming up in the financial numbers." In recent weeks Tonight staffers who queried editors...
...dairy industry is ready to fight the Administration's cutback proposals. The lobby's position is that the price supports are simply helping dairy farmers to make a reasonable profit, which only appears large when compared with other farm earnings. "We are producing too much milk," concedes Dairy Lobbyist Patrick Healy, "but the price-support program exists to ensure an adequate supply of milk. It does that...
...summer. The President's victory in the House budget fight was decisive: not a single Republican deserted his party, while 63 Democrats abandoned theirs. That gave Reagan a 77-vote margin in the 253-176 roll call, on which a Reagan-endorsed budget proposal replaced a more moderate cutback recommended by the House Budget Committee...