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...Pope can afford to forgive his would-be assassin., That is his right as an individual. His action is also a manifesto for his flock. But do not tell me that those who endured the Nazi furor are supposed to follow the papal example and forgive the mass killings. The victims' ashes and bones, scattered in graves unmarked by a cross or David's star, would be desecrated by such a gesture...
...States re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan ("I misstated"), his endorsement of a unified Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, and the campaign promise of a balanced budget ("In the first place, I said that [a balanced budget] was our goal, not a promise."). And in the wake of the current furor over the President's special hunger commission and the presence of a widespread problem, it is unlikely that the archives will put out on display the text of a 1964 TV speech in which the retired actor said "We were told four years ago that 17 million people went...
Garry Trudeau raised quite a furor a year ago when he announced that he would take a leave of absence from his daily comic strip "Doonesbury." In explaining his sabbatical, Trudeau mentioned something about his characters, children of the '60s, needing to grow up and move on. "Doonesbury," created in the paradigm of the radical '60s, just wasn't funny under the Reagan Administration...
...furor over the disclosure is indicative of the growing sensitivity to the secret taping of phone calls both inside and outside government. The practice is "an offense against good reporting, against good business and particularly against good government," declares Times Columnist William Safire, who broke the story and who is still smarting from a wiretap of his own calls ordered by the Nixon Administration in 1969. Any surreptitious use of tape recorders is "flat wrong," says St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times Editor Eugene Patterson. "Bugging is bugging, no matter what you call it." Many major press organizations, including the Washington Post...
...April, Congress has appropriated $140 million in special aid. New York City's expenditures on its 60,000 homeless people more than doubled this year, to $135 million. Officials at all levels seem to be scrambling to address-or dismiss-the problem. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese caused a furor last week by dubiously claiming that "people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it." In San Francisco, declares Deputy Mayor Bo-tea Gilford, the homeless are "the most difficult problem we have ever faced...