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Hawaii was pure holiday. Although the President carried his three-inch-thick briefing book as he padded to the beach in white bathing trunks Easter Monday, he mostly ignored it. Instead, he tried some broken-field running, using a coconut as a surrogate football, then exhibited a leisurely overhand crawl through the Pacific surf. The scene seemed reminiscent of the pictures from 1966 that purported to show Chairman Mao, then 72, swimming vigorously in the Yangtze River. During their day and two nights in the 50th state (they stop in the 49th, Alaska, this week), Reagan and Nancy chatted with...
Peking's welcome began even before the President left Washington for the first leg of his 14-day, 20,000-mile journey last Thursday (he was to spend Easter weekend at his California ranch). After insisting initially that the presidential entourage, including the press, be limited to 200, Chinese officials graciously upped the number to 560. Reagan will also be allowed to fly aboard Air Force One within China and to take along his own limousine and helicopter, privileges that were not accorded Nixon or Ford...
When Congress reconvenes next week, after a ten-day Easter recess, the African famine-relief bill, which was passed by the House with no funds for the contras, will go to a House-Senate conference to have differences reconciled. Leaders of the Democratic-controlled House have instructed their conferees to demand that all money for the contras be stricken from the bill, and they will have some Republican support. The mining, says Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, ranking G.O.R member on the House Appropriations Committee, is a "stupid, stupid thing." On the more general subject of aid to the contras...
March goes out like a lion with Carolina twisters and a howling nor'easter...
...Carolina twisters formed the front line of a monster storm system that turned into a howlingly lethal nor'easter as it moved up the Atlantic Coast. On Thursday, the tenth day of spring, and on into Friday morning, heavy, wet snow, sometimes mixed with sleet and accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell from Virginia to Maine. Up to two feet of snow piled up in central New York State. Snowplows clearing runways at Boston's Logan Airport occasionally ground to a halt when their drivers were bunded in whiteouts of whirling flakes...