Word: dismay
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Whether Reagan and Congress can summon the will to make such supremely difficult choices is problematic. Reagan has rebuffed all suggestions for slower defense spending increases, to the dismay of some in his own Administration. In an inter view with the Associated Press that was released as his resignation be came effective last week, Murray Weidenbaum, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, charged that increases in military spending have fully offset all Reagan's cuts in civilian programs. Said Weidenbaum: "On balance, we really haven't cut the budget. When you add that [defense spending...
...dismay of the authorities, many Soviet young people have turned away from the stuffy ideal of the committed Young Communist Leaguer that was fostered by their elders. Now two generations beyond the terror-filled Stalin era and the suffering of World War II, the young are bent on having fun in all the ways taught by Western movies, visitors and foreign radio broadcasts. In and around Moscow last week, youngsters were boardsailing, skateboarding and hang gliding; practicing yoga, karate, kung fu and fad diets; exchanging Bruce Lee posters; disco dancing; listening to tapes of Diana Ross and ABBA; and going...
...into criticizing the Administration foreign policy. In his letter of resignation to Reagan, Alexander Haig complained that this policy was losing its "consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose." But Shultz told the committee that he found it "pretty clear and consistent." While a number of foreign diplomats have expressed dismay at what they see as too many Administration officials offering conflicting statements, Shultz declared: "We have one policy: the President's policy...
...most controversial resignations have been two top Treasury Department supply-siders, Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy, who left in February, and Norman Ture, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Tax and Economic Affairs, who departed in June. Neither has disguised his dismay at the drift in Administration economic policy. Said Ture of the compromise plan to boost taxes $98 billion over the next three years: "The package is damned unfortunate. It is going to be self-defeating." Roberts summed up his gloomy view of Administration policymaking: "There is no policy any more. The policymakers bend whichever...
...dismay about Reagan among Reaganites brought an ill-assorted two dozen Some them together for a meeting a week before Haig's resignation. Some were writers and polemicists of standing, including Michael Novak, Irving Kristol and as Podhoretz; some edit obscure, cranky magazines that posture as if they them armies of followers; others have enough name recognition to get themselves onto talk shows on an off night. Richard Viguerie, whose computers contain the hottest list of right-wing fat cats, was there; so was Terry Dolan, who raises hours for commercials against candidates on his hit list. After five...