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Crucial to that strategy, however, is stemming any potential rebellion in Republican ranks. That will not be easy. Even Baker was leery. "Every fiber in my political body resonates against a $90 billion deficit," he said. He went so far as to mention the unspeakable, for a Republican leader: "The ultimate tragedy would be if this country, teetering now on the brink of national bankruptcy, slipped over the edge." Declared Republican Senator William Armstrong, a key member of the Senate Budget Committee: "There is close to no chance that Reagan's budget will pass. Very few Republicans would vote...
Friends and fiber experts testify against Wayne Williams...
Although Williams is on trial only for the murders of Cater and Payne, Judge Clarence Cooper has permitted evidence that also links the defendant with ten other young, black, male homicide victims. Central to that evidence are tiny synthetic textile fibers found on each of the twelve victims' corpses, which forensic experts say were very likely picked up from Williams' bedding, rugs and cars. Yet it is impossible to trace any fiber conclusively to a particular garment, and none potentially from the victims' clothing was found clinging to Williams' belongings...
Unfortunately, there is ample evidence that the Administration fumbled the issue even more than was initially supposed. But beyond that, a President who finds it necessary to reassert his belief in racial equality as often as Reagan does ("I am opposed with every fiber of my being to discrimination") has a problem more basic and enduring than any specific controversy. Indeed, Reagan frequently finds himself on the defensive on other issues that concern America's underdogs. The President is a politician whose human instincts on most matters are acute. Why are they so dull when the stepchildren of society...
...couldn't feed himself and his family was hardly a man at all. "Under our political system," Hoover had said in 1930, "Government is not, nor should it be, a general employer of labor." Federal aid to the unemployed, Hoover said, would weaken their "moral fiber." Hopkins disagreed. "People don't eat in the long run, Senator," he said to one legislator, "they eat every...