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...Rube Goldberg" scheme that the legislature will reject. The tax-writing committees of Congress are loath to let the President specify the conditions under which levies should be raised. Republicans Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Barber Conable of New York, a tax expert in the House, put their opposition on the record last week. Many Congressmen and Senators also feel that a plan to raise taxes only if certain conditions prevail is inadequate. They will propose a surcharge that would take effect in late 1985, come what...
...transplanted Texan's single-minded focus on the politics of problems is both a strength and a weakness. Baker, 52, readily concedes that he is not expert on most domestic programs and policy issues and relies heavily on his top aide, Richard Darman, for help on such matters. He also relies on the White House's congressional lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein, to handle the details of legislative strategy...
...became a Republican in 1970-Baker has long been anathema to the far right. Often conservatives have tried to persuade Reagan to drop Baker. "Jim is a reasonable person who sits down with the opposition and works things out," complains Richard Viguerie, the right's direct-mail expert, who considers such reasonableness a weakness. In Viguerie's view, Baker "doesn't understand confrontation politics...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) of the Kennedy School of Government yesterday announced that three politician, two journalists, and a mediation expert will serve as Follows for the spring semester...
...smoking-related diseases in Third World countries already rivals even infections diseases and malnutrition--historically the Third World's greatest medical problems--in many areas. And since the result of smoking often take 10 to 15 years to manifest themselves, the worst effects still have not appeared. As one expert succinctly put it, "Millions more lives will soon be going up in smoke...