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...last chance for an economy-salvaging solution to the budget dilemma. Baker has been briefing his boss almost daily, and the President has shown signs that he is open to a compromise with Congress. "I look forward to progress being made as soon as they come back from the Easter recess," Reagan said last week, adding that he would not object to a "summit" with Democratic leaders. The Speaker will go along with the budget compromise, his aides say, as long as Reagan takes the lead: "Only the President can persuade the American people to swallow the medicine...
Warm-weather fashions draped the mannequins in department-store windows. Spruced-up stadiums awaited the opening ceremonies of the baseball season. Dogwood and azaleas were in bloom, and the calendar insisted that spring was entering its third week and Easter was just days off. But then the winter that would not go away struck again, blasting much of the nation last week with freezing temperatures, blustery winds and snowstorms that would have seemed excessive for February...
...Israeli gunman shatters the Easter peace in Jerusalem
...Temple Mount, sacred to both Jews and Muslims, is potentially the most explosive point of contact between the two peoples. Since the Israelis captured it from the Arabs in June 1967, the low hill inside Jerusalem's historic walled city has remained largely free of violence. But on Easter Sunday, as thousands of Christian pilgrims flocked into the Old City, a lone gunman, dressed in an olive-green Israeli military uniform, turned the uneasy calm into a day of bloodshed at the Temple Mount and throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
...event that broke the Easter calm began at 9:10 a.m., when a man later identified by Israeli authorities as Allen Goodman, 37, an American immigrant who appeared to be an Israeli army reservist, approached the Band Ghanim gate to the Temple Mount. He was carrying a sleeping bag, a handbag and an M-16 automatic rifle. Arab guards, alarmed at the sight of the weapon, shouted Mam 'nua! (Forbidden!). Goodman opened fire, wounding one guard and hitting another with the butt of his rifle...