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...President had a scare Friday afternoon when, during a checkup, doctors found a tiny colonic polyp. It proved benign. Indeed, said a physician who examined him, Reagan is in "very exceptional" shape as the general election campaign approaches. The frenzied, fretful, fractious Democrats might well envy that tiptop appraisal...
...than worthy of unfailing United States aid. He has placed the army under civilian authority and is reducing the size of the armed forces. He has also abandoned the American tactic of supporting secret wars to overthrow existing Latin American governments, and has promised to peacefully resolve a potentially fractious conflict with Chile over the Beagle Channel...
While Congress was jousting with the oil companies, the Reagan Administration was unusually fractious last week on another corporate coupling. In an article in the New York Times, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige blasted the Justice Department's decision to block the joining of LTV and Republic Steel because it would reduce competition. Baldrige called the ruling "a world-class mistake" because it hinders the steel industry's efforts to become more competitive with foreign producers. A day later, outgoing Attorney General William French Smith issued a statement defending his department and pointedly remarked that antitrust decisions would...
...have a distaste for incumbents--no senator has won a second term there since 1966 Senate Majority leader Howard Baker's decision to step down in Tennessee induced the popular Democrat Rep. Albert Gore Jr. to make a bid for the seat. Gore will probably benefit from a fractious Reublican primary, in which an extreme right-wing religious leader has been viciously attacking his moderate...
...taller still. Even allowing for inflation, the 1985 budget is the largest submitted by the Pentagon since World War II, including the years of the Korean and Viet Nam wars. It had something for everyone, as the Senate and House Armed Services committees found out last week in sometimes fractious briefings. Said one Senate staffer: "In a $305 billion budget, there can't be any real losers...