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...most major issues; when they differ seriously, the White House machinery simply seizes up. Stockman last summer demanded deep cuts in defense spending and Weinberger resisted any reductions at all. Reagan, who basically thought the dispute was a technical question rather than a matter of principle, let things drift for six weeks in the hope that Meese could get the two to agree on a figure. Deaver finally intervened to get both to present their arguments directly to Reagan, and the President decided in favor of minimal cuts ($2 billion this fiscal year). But precious time had been lost. Without...
...weeks, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, White House Counsellor Edwin Meese and other senior U.S. officials have been issuing a series of increasingly bellicose warnings about the behavior of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government. The U.S. is concerned about what Haig calls the "drift toward totalitarianism" of the Nicaraguan regime, the presence of some 1,500 Cuban military advisers in the country and the role of Nicaragua in supporting the left-wing guerrillas in El Salvador. Haig is also irked by Nicaragua's own heavy arms buildup, which he believes is sponsored by Cuba and the Soviet Union...
...economy is lousy. If it wasn't, we wouldn't be here." By day's end perhaps 300 people will have been fed at St. Peter's, four times the number who were served when the kitchen opened in 1976. A thousand more will drift into other kitchens across Detroit. They are among the most visible, and the most humbled, of the jobless in a state where one in every eight workers is unemployed...
...built. On seeing snowmelt puddles in the outfield, one joker suggested renaming the arena Aquadome. Said Minneapolis Star Sportswriter Scott Papillon: "The Minnesota Twins won't even have to ship players back to the minors. They can just station them in left field and let them drift...
...voicing their concern about the mounting hostility between the two superpowers. Rademaekers talked with idealistic youths in and out of the peace movements; with members of the postwar generation coming to positions of influence in business, politics and teaching; and with government leaders who were apprehensive about the drift to pacifism and neutralism in their countries. "In the span of a year," says Rademaekers, "they have emerged as a powerful lobbying force." The challenge of the peace movements and the responses of the Reagan Administration and the Soviet leadership are the subject of this week's cover story...