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...that was all it was-without altering the strategic and historic special relationship with the U.S., on which Israel's survival depends. To the American public it was necessary to show the fledgling Administration to be both temperate and decisive in dealing with a major foreign policy flap, responding cohesively to fundamental American interests in the region and the world. The result was some fancy footwork by Reagan and his men that earned them, though things might still turn sour, better than a passing grade...
...some institute fellows, the Harberger flap remains an emotional issue. Glenn P. Jenkins, an HIID fellow and lecturer in Economics who strongly supported Harberger's appointment, declines to comment on the affair, saying it is "still too painful to talk about...
...water of Long Beach Harbor and flew it at a height of 70 ft. for about a mile. Hughes had announced he would only undertake taxiing tests, but Soderberg says he knew that Hughes' preparations had been too elaborate for mere taxiing. "When I saw that flap come down at 15° I told a photographer next to me, 'You'd better get it,' and it took off as easy as any flying boat I've ever seen...
Perhaps the most disturbing element of last week's flap is that energy has been dissipated, in petty feuds over rank and prerogative, that might more usefully have gone into the formulation of foreign policy. Nothing dramatic has gone wrong, but time has been wasted by a group that tends to dawdle too much over procedure...
...minor flap arose just before the President's speech because Reagan decided to keep the top tax rate on "earned" (essentially wage and salary) income at 50%. That annoyed New York Congressman Jack Kemp, co-author of the tax plan whose main features Reagan adopted: Kemp had thought the rate would come down to 36%. He and others argue that deep tax cuts are especially needed in high brackets to prompt the wealthy to switch money out of tax shelters into more productive savings and investment...