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...The big hang-up is on military spending. Stockman wants a reduction of $10 billion in the requested appropriation for fiscal 1986, $20 billion the following year and $30 billion in 1988. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger adamantly insists on a $333 billion request for 1986, which would be a...
Television ushered in the new year by cracking what it breathlessly billed as "the last taboo": incest. Liberal Minneapolis celebrated by backtracking a couple of taboos and considering a ban on pornography. One would have thought that that particular hang-up had been overcome. But even though the ban voted...
Bettmann has always been a discerning judge of quality, discarding most of the 100,000 photos he reviewed each year for possible inclusion in the collection. "You could start your own archive from my wastebasket," he says. But one would need the key to the complicated and precise Bettmann cataloguing...
Visitors to the White House have wondered at Carter's literal acceptance of dovish letters from Leonid Brezhnev. The ruler of a critical Middle East country showed another statesman a handwritten note from the President that was viewed by the recipient as a near insult, a naive and flawed view...
But Connally's mentor, Lyndon B. Johnson, had a courage hang-up too. It lay in another direction. He talked about how he resembled Matt Dillon riding into town on his big horse. How Texas Rangers, men he admired, just kept coming at you even though they were shot...