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...depression-high unemployment and his record budget deficits contributed first to Republican losses in November's election, then to loyalty losses in Congress. The extent to which Reagan's base has eroded was demonstrated late last month, when 21 GOP senators--a coalition which backed the White House's drastic budget measures two springs ago--ignored the threat of a Reagan veto and supported a compromise proposal...
SOME MERELY HARANGUING the president is no longer enough. It was fine when the Administration was railroading through its drastic measures, and a barrage of criticism was the only chance for a derailment. It made sense at the midterm elections, when in some districts the mere affiliation with Republicanism meant political death; eight-term Rep. Margaret Heckler of Southern Massachusetts was one such victim. Now, though, with the Reagan consensus clearly struggling, the only way to kill it off is with an appealing alternative agenda...
With power so perilously poised between the two factions, the gain of a single seat by either camp would spell drastic changes in hotly debated city-wide policies such as zoning and rent control. So the release this spring of the first results from the 1980 census takes on special significance. The figures indicate that the racial balance, the occupational mix, and the number and type of homeowners have all changed substantially in the past decade. And while prognostication at this point is difficult because the statistics have yet to be broken down by neighborhood, city mavens agree that...
With the exception of the fire hazard, however, student safety has not been a major problem as Harvard reconstructs. Undergraduate life was made different when construction equipment began to dominate sidewalks and landscapes. But the long-term benefits apparently make the unwelcome wake-up calls and the drastic change in scenery more tolerable. Says Davis: "If the youth of America can not stand the noise of someone pounding a nail 100 feet away, the nation has lost its fiber...
...Harvard Nuclear Study Group,* as an exercise in ideology-free education, rather than advocacy. Much of the book is a history of the nuclear arms race. As if addressing the current congressional maneuvering over nuclear weapons, the authors reject both a comprehensive freeze on nuclear weapons development and the drastic cuts proposed by Reagan...