Word: fighting
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...toto, and President Reagan took care last week not to embrace officially a single one of the recommendations. He will listen to outraged screams from every imaginable lobby, from farmers to museum directors, before deciding which ideas to put forward as potentially salable, or at any rate worth a fight, in his State of the Union and budget messages early next year. After that, there will be a battle royal on Capitol Hill, with the outcome unpredictable. The tax and budget plans could set the terms for national debate over domestic policy for years into the future...
...taxes, the initial challenge is Reagan's. He must make up his mind what he wants and then fight for it. Treasury Secretary Regan gently prodded his boss in that direction, stating in a letter to the President that "the achievement of fundamental tax reform . . . will require extraordinary leadership." Congressional leaders put the point more emphatically. Said House Budget Committee Chairman James Jones, an Oklahoma Democrat: "Tax reform or any kind of tax bill is unlikely to succeed unless the President puts all the force of his personality and office behind it." Democrats also insisted that if Reagan expects...
...Legislative Council for Older Americans is preparing a nationwide call for mass meetings, parades and a march on Washington to resist Medicare cuts. Vows a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "If they want to make drastic cuts in veterans' hospitals, they're in for the fight of their lives...
...Asia implies certain important truths about what the nation should and should not attempt overseas. But exactly what are those lessons? In military terms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger declared in an address last week, the conclusions are simple: pick wars carefully, make sure the public will cooperate, and then fight to win. Weinberger's rules are nothing new. Thoughtful U.S. military officers have been recommending the same deliberate course for some time. But Weinberger, rather surprisingly, has codified that consensus into an explicit checklist of the prerequisites for military action, a kind of national how-to guide...
Covert operations go better when they remain covert. Yet U.S. funding and CIA direction of the contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua have long been among Washington's most openly debated topics. It has been no secret either that the CIA has been funneling arms and supplies to the fighters in Afghanistan who have been battling the five-year-old Soviet occupation. The clandestine supply route through Pakistan has been widely reported. The U.S. Senate even voted unanimously last Oct. 3 to approve a resolution declaring that "it would be indefensible to provide the freedom fighters with only...