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...pierced 1,000 for the first time in four years. The widely watched indicator was then on a roller-coaster through the next several months, reaching 1,024, its highest close so far this year, on April 27. Slowly at first, but then with increasing momentum, doubts turned into downright disbelief...
Though the movement has become widely known as the New Right, the resurgence of conservative American politics draws much of its strength from some familiar-if not downright old-fashioned-values. For the three-man team that reported this week's cover story on conservative Senator Jesse Helms, the assignment involved a return to familiar ground as well. Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce set out to reconstruct Helms' early political background by interviewing the Senator's friends and associates in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh and in Helms' boyhood home of Monroe. Boyce was well...
Watch my record, not my rhetoric," James Watt told conservationists who were skeptical, even downright panicked, when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior. So they did. Now the Cabinet's most controversial member is under attack not only by environmental groups but also by the state of California, staffers in his own department's Office of Surface Mining, and even Congress. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, in an impassioned speech to the Senate: "The clamor for his removal grows more persistent every day. I want Mr. Watt stopped...
...warm colleagues, are strained. That at least is the way their aides perceive it. At the Pentagon, Haig is seen as being overly sympathetic to the Europeans, despite their reluctance to commit sufficient funds to beef up NATO. At the State Department, Weinberger is regarded as clumsy and even downright crude in his approach to military issues that have diplomatic overtones, such as deployment of the neutron bomb and the upgrading of Theater Nuclear Forces in Europe...
When compared with holidays for Europeans, vacations for Americans seem downright puny. A report last month by the U.S. Department of Labor showed that during 1980, the average U.S. worker with three years of service got only ten days of vacation. By contrast, in West Germany 95% of workers enjoyed at least four weeks of paid vacation during the year...