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Though Reagan dramatized the Administration's concern about Central America by giving a speech to an extraordinary joint session of Congress on April 27, the legislators balked at his Salvadoran aid requests. To date Congress has voted only about half of the money the Administration sought. Also during the spring...
The worldwide picture is not entirely bleak. China, which suffered some kind of drought every year between 1949 and 1982, received a welcome spate of April showers. So too, the worst drought in Australia's history ended last March, when steady rainfall began soaking much of the country. As...
Reagan's conciliatory tone was part of a calculated effort to rein in his ideological fervor. But the restrained Reagan of Tuesday night had flowered right back into vintage Reagan by Wednesday. He traveled to Boston to show his commitment to job-training programs that help the disadvantaged and...
This new language often displays a youthfully exuberant sense of the absurd. Thus "moby," meaning large, is said to derive from Melville's Moby Dick, though some say from Moby Pickle. And "bogus," which used to be squealed by Evelyn Waugh debutantes, has now flowered into bogosity, and even...
In a bleacher at the rear of the amphitheater, beyond the shade of the roof, a man with an unbuttoned, flowered shirt suns his ample midriff, his eyes serenely shut. He could be an orthodontist or a hardware-store owner, but he is probably the minister of a prosperous Protestant...