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...West usually goes through a fire season in the last weeks of summer, but the ferocious blazes rarely start this early. "It's burning like October," said Dan Kleinman of the U.S. Forest Service. Meteorologists blame a mammoth high-pressure system, centered over Utah and bringing temperatures as high as 112 °F, for the weather conditions that have fostered the fires. The climatic front has locked the Western states into a kind of giant sauna, where dry heat settles, ocean breezes cannot penetrate and nighttime temperatures remain high. "We're facing all of July and August," said Clyde...
...impact of Reagan's illness on the budget standoff is not likely to be great. Shrugs Republican Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana: "Reagan never was deeply involved in the budget process to begin with." In what could become an explosive new reversal, however, Chief of Staff Regan hinted last week that the White House might change course and back the Senate's call for Social Security cuts after all, should the House fail to come up with some other realistic savings in domestic spending. And even from his sickbed, the President continued to insist that he is unalterably opposed...
...latest offer by House Democrats on the budget. But Regan determined on his own the White House response to a Federal Reserve Board move that allowed a faster-than-planned expansion of the nation's money supply: tacit approval, signaled by making no comment at all. Said Republican Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, assessing Regan's performance: "He is the acting President. He will be the Sherman Adams of this Administration...
...Silver Plan: Lawyers from Harvard Law School will be to Bechtel as ‘Nam was to Lieutenant Dan, only this time Forrest Gump will be as fast as a member of the Advocate on horse tranquilizer. Can you say “black knight from Monty Python...
...Dan Gala (1-2), who allowed two earned runs over 6 2/3 innings, took the loss for Cornell...