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...advisers were wondering aloud themselves. The expected deficit in the coming fiscal year was growing and projections for fiscal 1983 and 1984 were worse. All but the most optimistic supply-side economists were predicting that Reagan would have to sacrifice one of his goals to preserve the others. That dilemma was debated at a crucial 3½-hour meeting of his top defense and economic officials Tuesday at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. It was by all accounts a demanding and combative session. Though few decisions were reached, it looked as though Reagan was preparing to choose...
...votes to keep its gains intact, any attempt at another round of reductions would depreciate the political capital that Reagan won in the "historic" votes on spending-and would renew doubts about the wisdom and affordability of multiyear tax cuts. Whatever Reagan decides when he returns to confront this dilemma, pure Yankee Doodle Days may be harder to come...
...Solidarity's national commission held an emergency session on how to deal with the government. For three days, union leaders angrily debated the question of just how far they could push the beleaguered officials under the threat of possible Soviet intervention. Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa later described their dilemma: "Should we behave as a typical trade union that makes demands or should we attempt, as Poles and citizens, to go in a slightly different direction...
...essay titled "On Being English but Not British," Novelist John Fowles equated Englishness with tolerance, reserve and justice; Britishness with imperialism, conformity and arrogance. "The Great English Dilemma," wrote Fowles, "is the split in the English mind between the Green England and the Red-white-and-blue Britain... The agonizing reappraisal we English-Britons have had to make of our status as a world power since 1945 in fact permits us to be much more English again...
...Springbok tour placed New Zealand's Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, 59, in a tough political dilemma. If he approved the South Africans' visit, he risked censure abroad as well as violent clashes at home between anti-apartheid groups and rugby diehards. But opposing the tour also carried liabilities: Muldoon and his National Party, currently holding just 48 of the 92 seats in Parliament, face an uphill election battle in November; banning the Springboks might well outrage numerous rugby fans among the voters...