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These revelations caused congressional Democrats to question Reagan's motives in the spending cuts. Said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts: "If this was a budget decision, then I'm Lady Diana Spencer." Added Congressman Thomas Lantos of California: "Calling this a budget decision is a smokescreen. It's a policy change based on the Administration's relationship with the oil companies." Responding just as vehemently, Energy Secretary James Edwards insisted that the prosecutions would proceed even under the new budget. Said he: "By God, there'll be no amnesty." Meanwhile, the oil companies sit silently...
Spiking the stale beer of Britons' discontent-deepening recession, wallet-walloping new taxes-came a tulip glass of bubbly named Di. When blond, blue-eyed, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer made her first formal appearance last week as the fiancée of the Prince of Wales, she left the island gasping. Attending a benefit recital at the Goldsmiths' Hall -close to St. Paul's Cathedral, where the royal couple will be married July 29-the Queen-to-be stepped out in a strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour...
Seven years ago Diana Watt and her older brother found an old violin in their grand parent's attic. "Of course we fought over who would get to keep it," she says, "but I had no idea that it would have such an enormous effect on my life." Indeed, without that violin and the intensive lessons which followed its discovery, she probably would not have developed a serious committment to music, and would instead have remained "one of those kids who takes four years of piano and hated every minute of it." Certainly, she would not be about to become...
When she marries Charles, some time late in July and probably in Westminster Abbey, Diana, who will then be 20, will begin sharing his responsibilities. "I was about that age when I started," says the Prince. "It's obviously difficult to start with, but you just have to plunge in." His duties consist, principally of letting himself be seen, not to mention photographed and interviewed, at factories, schools, small-town gatherings and state func tions. That routine will not change much when he finally becomes King-upon his mother's death or abdication...
ENGAGED. Prince Charles, 32, heir to the British throne; and Lady Diana Spencer, 19, the girl next door (see PEOPLE...