Word: gan
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When the White House speechwriters crafted Ronald Rea gan's Christmas message, they tried desperately to get away from Charles Dickens' hoary label for any era: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." But they failed, drawn again to that time-worn language to describe the maddening contradictions of the world today. And indeed, Dickens' words may be especially apt for 1982, a year with no poetry in its sound, no numerical magic. It is a year that a number of scholars and statesmen are already predicting will be momentous...
...surprise that when he be came President, Rea gan again went for the kill: he proposed zero funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the independent federal agency that provides 85% of the money spent by legal services groups across the U.S. But last week his nemesis once more ducked the federal blow. Acting on a bill that had already passed the House, the Senate cleared the way for continued fed eral support of legal services, although it cut 1982 funding by 25% to $241 million...
...that is done properly, Rea gan and Weinberger have a once-in-a-generation chance to forge a lasting consensus for a forceful military policy. For the first time since the early 1960s, no voices of any political consequence are calling for substantially lower defense expenditures; most of the arguments are about how much more to spend, and especially for what. But the opportunity could all too easily be missed. One word used with monotonous regularity in the Pentagon and Congress to describe the present consensus for military spending is "fragile." Congress and the nation will strongly support increased military...
...action, gesture and word by a President-elect and his staff becomes symbolic of something larger expected later. Every contact, every appointee is a declaration of policy that may rock the world. Nothing is too trivial, remote or obscure. Already the quivering hordes of analysts have perceived the Rea gan global strategist (Alexander Haig), most powerful legislative ally (Paul Laxalt), shadow behind the power (Richard Nixon), new fashion color (brown...
...National Security Adviser, was scheduled to brief Reagan before this week's trip to Ciudad Juarez to meet Mexican President López Portillo. But the most pressing business was to finish naming his Cabinet. Unlike Carter, who filled his Cabinet by Christmas four years ago, Rea gan has been unable to decide on a Secretary of Education and a special trade representative. Several people have turned down Education, a department that Reagan favors dismantling. Said the President-elect: "I think we've sought a few people that just weren't interested in Government service, that didn...