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...moment, the budget gap is indeed being left unattended. Though Rea gan in his State of the Union address called for a budget-reduction "down payment" of $100 billion over three years, negotiators from the White House and Congress have had only three halfhearted and inconclusive meetings on where to begin. Last week the President and the Democrats were pointing fingers at each other over who was really to blame for the huge deficits. Said Reagan in a press conference: "I am a little struck by these born-again budget balancers, who for 40 out of the last 44 years...
...with a bodyguard. But, arguing that such protection was not appropriate, Kerr dispensed with it. One morning last week the two gunmen entered the administration building unchallenged, made their way to the third floor and waited. At 9: 10 a.m., as Kerr stepped out of the elevator and be gan to walk toward his office, one of the terrorists shot him twice in the head with a gun fitted with a silencer. The gunmen escaped, and at a nearby hospital, Kerr was pronounced dead...
Pressure to do just that is growing. House Speaker Tip O'Neill announced that he will meet with 14 Democratic Congressmen this week to reassess the House majority's attitude toward Rea gan's Lebanon policy. In September, the Democrats gave Reagan enough votes to extend the Marines' stay in Lebanon until April 1985. An aide to Republican Sena tor Howard Baker said that the Majority Leader also expects a bipartisan push for an early Marine pullout when the Congress reconvenes on Jan. 23. While Rea gan's own rhetoric about not yielding to terrorism...
...damage was first detected around 1970, but scientists suspect that the destruction be gan two decades earlier. One clue: cross sections of tree trunks show that their growth rings, widely separated for more than a century, began narrowing in the 1950s and '60s, a sign of impaired growth. Researchers initially blamed severe climatic conditions, like the near drought of 1976. Today suspicion focuses on environmental pollution, particularly the acid rain caused by auto and industrial emissions...
Government does not involve only military affairs, to be sure. Every aspect of economic policy attracts similar expressions of right thinking. When Reagan was convinced that taxes had to be increased, after he had promised to cut them, he be gan referring not to taxes but to "revenue enhancements," a term apparently invented by Lawrence Kudlow, formerly of the Office of Management and Budget. The tendency seems to be spreading. A spokes man for Budget Director David Stockman won special recognition for declaring that the Administration was not considering a means test for Medicare but a "layering of bene fits...