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...Arabs got the message, and did not like it. Said a high-ranking Egyptian official after the Knesset vote: "The Israelis have thrown down the gauntlet to President Carter. The Israelis don't believe, he means to change American policy. Carter will have to make it crystal-clear how America really feels about war and peace, Arabs and Jews. Begin is talking tough. We think Carter will answer in kind...
Registration for the Class of 1981 will commence promptly at 9 a.m., as freshmen begin to enter Memorial Hall and run the gauntlet of computer cards and fast-talking, experienced hucksters, and it will end sometime after...
...panel's recommendations must still run the usual bureaucratic gauntlet, including a public airing, and could be modified after drug companies weigh in with their objections. But the FDA seems determined to deal with the national headache of analgesic misuse. As the FDA's Kennedy put it: "Consumers must be assured that the drugs they buy are rationally formulated with safe and effective ingredients and labeled and advertised with information that is complete, honest and understandable...
...doing so, the legislators were directly challenging Carter and imperiling his announced goal of a balanced budget by 1981. The President picked up the gauntlet at his news conference. In a five-minute opening statement, he politely but quite plainly threatened to veto bills that did not meet his standards of fiscal responsibility...
Picking up Kennedy's gauntlet, Carter said that he was "committed to the phasing-in of a national health insurance system" and would send the legislation to Congress early next year. The delegates responded with a standing, 50-second ovation. They were less pleased when he declared that while successful programs would not be cut back, he had to "make some hard choices about how we spend the taxpayers' money." He added: "We can't afford to do everything." The delegates sat in silence as he vigorously defended his proposal to save fuel by imposing heavy taxes...