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...urging Reagan to cancel the Bitburg visit. The letter noted that SS troops had committed atrocities against American prisoners during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as against millions of Jews, and suggested dryly that "a more appropriate gesture of reconciliation be found." In the House, New York Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz charged, "This is the most monumental error of judgment by the President since he assumed office." Asked another New York Democrat, Congressman Ted Weiss, "Mr. President, where is your sense of history? Where is your sense of decency...
CONVERTED. Lewis Lehrman, 46, conservative New York business millionaire and 1982 Republican gubernatorial candidate who narrowly lost to Democrat Mario Cuomo; from Reform Judaism, the faith in which he was raised, to Roman Catholicism, whose teachings had increasingly attracted him, especially since a 1983 audience with Pope John Paul II; in a private baptism in New York City. "I can only hope for understanding," said Lehrman, whose wife and five children are Episcopalians and whose older sister is a convert to Mormonism. Some Jewish leaders nonetheless professed disappointment at the loss of a highly visible political role model, especially...
...time and again Stockman's mastery of his job compensated for the controversy he caused, and the announcement of his departure was the cue for a bipartisan chorus of praise. "He was the only one who really knew the numbers," said Congressman Tony Coelho, a California Democrat. New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called him "the most effective OMB Director we've ever had."[*] Even the Washington Post's editorialists, often critical of Stockman's cuts, commended him "for a kind of intellectual and moral integrity that is rarely found in national public life." Stockman...
...following morning, Reagan summoned all 28 Senate and House budget negotiators for the meeting at the White House where tempers flared. According to Democratic Congressman Thomas Downey of New York, House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray complained to Reagan about a radio address he had delivered criticizing the Democrats' budget proposal as "phony." Said Gray: "Look, it doesn't do either of us any good to describe our plans this way." The President was riled, but he did not actually throw down his pencil until two Senators, Republican Slade Gorton and Democrat Lawton Chiles, started to talk about the need...
...that the White House and Hill leadership have apparently compromised by agreeing not to make meaningful cuts in either Social Security or defense, congressional bookkeeping will almost surely become even more imaginative. Asked if the House budget was not fashioned from "smoke and mirrors," Democrat Vic Fazio of California responded not by answering, but by gloating over the G.O.P retreat on Social Security cuts. Never mind that the deficit will go on growing; just think of the political profits. Chuckled Fazio: "They'll be sucking our smoke." --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis and Christopher Redman/Washington