Word: electable
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Speaking at Lamont library, Pipes opened a two-week exhibition of Harvard-owned Russian Jewish materials in Widener Library. Pipes, whose speciality is early 20th-century Russian history, was recently named to President-elect Ronald Reagan's transition team as a foreign-policy adviser. He is also presently working on a multi-volume history of the Russian Revolution...
...President-elect Ronald Reagan, one of the not-so-incidental pleasures of his visit to Washington last week was the chance to applaud a legislative harbinger of his upcoming Administration. While Reagan was in town, the Senate passed a measure that would prohibit the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered busing in school desegregation cases. "I am heart and soul in favor of the things that have been done in the name of civil rights and desegregation," said Reagan. "I happen to believe, however, that busing has been a failure." The measure, proposed as a rider to an appropriations bill...
...help Begin's mood to have lost face during his U.S. tour when President-elect Ronald Reagan refused to see him. After his farewell meeting with President Carter, Begin plodded somewhat dispiritedly through an otherwise routine speaking tour. But he was his usual combative self when discussing Jerusalem -"the capital of Israel for all generations to come." On Israeli defenses in general, he was cocky: "I bring you good tidings from the land of our forefathers. Israel is strong...
...including West Germany, for endangering NATO by failing to meet their defense obligations. The Chancellor sought to reassure Baker that Bonn would continue to meet its obligations. Late that afternoon, Schmidt walked around the corner from Blair House to the Jackson Place townhouse reserved for past Presidents and Presidents-elect, for an unscheduled hourlong meeting with Ronald Reagan, which Schmidt clearly considered a major diplomatic coup for himself...
...strategy also runs the risk of making inflation worse. Though -Reagan and his advisers insist that the tax cuts will be offset by spending reductions, the President-elect has been equally emphatic on the need to boost defense outlays at the same time. In the process, the deficit for the 1981 fiscal year that began in October could all too easily wind up swelling to $55 billion or even $60 billion instead of the $50 billion that is now projected, or the $27 billion that Rea gan is shooting for. Says Fiscal Expert Joseph Pechman of the liberal Brookings Institution...