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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal spending for programs that many people have come to take for granted. So department by department, determined Administration budget cutters are now looking everywhere for places to slash, and they are finding the slashing hard. Says an Office of Management and Budget senior official: "This has got to be one of the toughest budgets in the past 20 years...
...White House argues that much of the trimming is not just a necessary evil but a positive good, that spending has simply got out of hand in many instances. Says a White House aide: "We just have to look at some of these things and ask ourselves: 'What are we buying? What's the real effect?' " The ax is poised over three departments in particular: Health, Education and Welfare, HUD and Labor. They will spend $214.3 billion in fiscal 1979, or about 44% of the current $491.6 billion federal budget. Their spending, moreover, has increased in the past few years...
Jordan orchestrated the campaign for ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. Last month, as the White House was preparing to announce Stage II of the anti-inflation program, an assortment of advisers seemed unable to square away the final details. Jordan got everyone marching. Usually his fingerprints are harder to detect. "Most people don't know what I ad vise the President," Jordan boasts. "When I do a memo, I type it myself and usually don't make copies...
...plot was thwarted when loyal officers got wind of it and warned Suárez. By nightfall on Nov. 16, a 100-man special operations force had moved into position to protect the palace, and Suárez had called in all his top military and police commanders and Defense Ministry officials. Meanwhile, two of the suspected plotters and a dissident general were arrested...
Claybrook, a Baltimore-bred divorcee who delights in being called feisty, is proud of the record 12.9 million auto-safety recalls that her agency originated in 1977 and the 8.9 million so far this year. After long and bitter negotiations, she got Firestone to give in to the recall of 7.5 million of its "500" radial tires, which had a high level of defects. She says she expects the company to agree further this week to proceed with the recall "as expeditiously as possible," to produce an extra 400,000 replacement tires a month, and to run TV ads telling...