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Last week an outside agitator stepped forward and concentrated congressional attention. The unlikely catalyst: Ronald Reagan, who had resolutely ignored Congress's budget dilemma after his own spending plan had been rejected by both Democrats and Republicans. Returning from a humdrum summit in Venice and limping from the continuing Iran-contra revelations, the President was looking for a quick score. So Reagan did what he does best: he took to the airwaves and attacked the old "tax and tax, spend and spend" ways of the Democrats. The assault pushed Byrd and House Speaker Jim Wright into hurried meetings with their...
...superstition," severely limiting its practice on the mainland. That may yet undermine China's attempt to assimilate the capitalist spirits of Hong Kong, which is scheduled to come under Peking's control in 1997. Thus local businessmen and ordinary citizens regard the Bank of China's feng shui dilemma with a polite silence, avoiding any embarrassment to the People's Republic. Meanwhile, as work proceeds on the unlucky building, the Communists have refrained from commenting on its future. The dragons are not talking either...
...engineer, Rust lived with his parents and 15-year-old brother, who were described by Bonn officials as "completely bewildered" by Mathias' spectacular dilemma. Said one investigator: "He was a nice, quiet, dedicated young man from whom no one expected great deeds, or great misadventures either." The Rust family decided to sell the rights to their story, presumably to offset some $100,000 in fines and charges that Mathias could face, to the weekly West German picture magazine Stern...
Marbury's shuttling was made easier by the advent of the modern jet airliner. But his travel difficulties are the source of a dilemma which has dogged the Corporation on the rare occasions that it has to choose a new member--how to draw members who are geographically representative of the entire Harvard community...
DIED. Gunnar Myrdal, 88, combative Nobel-prizewinning Swedish social economist whose 1944 report, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, a landmark study of U.S. race relations, was cited by the Supreme Court in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954) that separate schools for blacks are unconstitutional; in Stockholm. In 1968 his massive ten-year study, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, maintained that land reform would wipe out Third World poverty. Myrdal was awarded a Nobel medal for economics in 1974. He and his wife Alva, who died in 1986, four...