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Irving Kristol, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, arguing that the two proposals are close in intent and substance, urged the President last week to call the four legislators to the White House to hammer out a compromise. No one expects that to happen, however, since the Treasury Department will be pushing its own plan. Beyond that, even the seemingly minor differences in the bills loom very large when viewed from the perspective of those who would be hurt. The tax credit for new investments, for example, is worth some $29 billion a year to corporations; they...
...assassination. Furthermore, they charged, the manual shows that the CIA is violating a 1982 congressional amendment barring it from engaging in any activity aimed at overthrowing the Sandinistas. Reagan responded with the credulity-straining explanation that the word neutralization meant nothing more than "you just say to the fellow that's sitting there in the office, 'You're not in the office any more...
...thin Himalayan air from the open hatch of an Indian air force transport plane. Then Rajiv Gandhi, 40, returned to New Delhi last week and boldly took Indira Gandhi's place in the oak-paneled Prime Minister's office. His first official act was to assure his fellow citizens, via nationwide radio and television, that he would honor his mother's democratic, nonaligned policies. Rajiv then confidently called parliamentary elections for Dec. 24. One opposition candidate: Maneka Gandhi, 28, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay. The elections will be held in all states but Assam, where...
...bishops propose. "The bishops' letter is a resurrection of old policies that are no longer supported by those knowledgeable in economics," said Alan Greenspan, president of the Townsend-Greenspan economic consulting firm and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Charles Murray, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, called the proposed pastoral "a restatement of the dogmas of the Great Society" and "a rehash of failed ideas." The bishops, wrote Columnist George Will, "hurl cliches at problems that have proven intractable in the face of strenuous efforts by persons of intelligence...
Supergirl is Kara (Helen Slater), Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star...