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...Carter walked through the South Bronx and promised fiscal relief. Today this razed neighborhood continues to look like a bombed-out war zone--victimized by arsonists and ruled by street gangs with chains and sawed-off shotguns. His funding of neighborhood groups has also taken a downward turn. When measured in real dollars (adjusted for inflation), Carter's proposed 1981 budget will guarantee a cut in the two major sources of community development funding. The Community Development Block Grants program will suffer a 5 per cent reduction in funding while the president will cut the Urban Development Action Grants...
...arms race between the two superpowers. Secretary Brown indicated that without SALT the U.S. defense budget might have to be increased by an amount in the range of $30 billion between now and 1985. That figure is likely to be affected by the scale of Soviet efforts, upward or downward...
...them to do, the Afghan troops stationed there had killed their Russian advisers and prepared for a siege. The Soviet forces were reluctant to storm the base, lest this lead to a massacre, but they quickly surrounded it. Their solution was to position 20 tanks, their gun barrels pointed downward, on the surrounding hills and wait...
Material progress advanced handsomely enough, but the psychology of the decade seemed to follow a downward trajectory. A consensus was lost, and authority seemed to operate only erratically. The nation split into single-interest power factions. The screws of the American machine jarred loose; the whole thing rattled. Yet any such bleak view of the decade is not entirely justified. Norman Mailer has observed that Americans are obsessed by the question of whether they behave virtuously or not; the ambiguities of the '70s may disturb their moral self-image, and with it, their yearning for clear-cut conclusions...
...Pack have since died, Goldsmith believes that there is some corroborating visual evidence in photographs of F.D.R. taken over the years. By about 1932, he says, a small pigmented lesion had appeared above Roosevelt's left eye. In following years it seems to have enlarged and grown downward into the eyebrow. But after 1943 the lesion was gone. That leads Goldsmith to believe that the lesion was a sign of malignant melanoma-a form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs-and that it was surgically removed in 1943. He also suspects that when Lahey was called...