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...determining factor in his decision, Jepsen said, was the type of presidential persuasion that is the hardest to counter: in a private meeting with Reagan he had been given some "highly classified" information that lessened his fears about the sale's danger to Israel's security. After spending "all weekend" talking with his strongly pro-Israeli wife, Jepsen went to the Senate and stunned opponents with his defection. Said he: "A vote for the sale is a vote for my President and his successful conduct of foreign policy." Along with Jepsen came his conservative Iowa colleague Grassley...
...aimed at neighborhood preservation could be loosened; and the administration set up by former city manager James L. Sullivan could be dismantled or weakened. That's why people care, on both sides. That's why this has been the most expensive election in city history, and one of the hardest fought...
Bogorad said that the organization hardest hit by the budget cuts was the National Science Foundation, mentioning the toll cuts would take on the Foundation's ability to disperse grants to worthy applicants...
With the cost of money high, business conditions have begun to deteriorate, and hardest hit are the smaller firms. Unlike large corporations, which can pass on mounting overhead expenses by raising prices or turn to friendly banks for loans at a discount from the prime rate whenever they need a few million in cash, smaller firms have no such opportunities. Even in the best of times, many of them exist on a shoestring of high debts, thin profits and volatile markets...
...Fahd plan, TIME has learned, was worked out in close consultation with Arafat and thus might provide a basis for bringing the P.L.O. into the peace process. But that prospect is still anathema to the Israelis. As William Quandt, a Middle East expert, observes, "The hardest thing for Mubarak to do in the next six months is going to be to send reassuring and credible signals to the Israelis while at the same time beginning the slow process of rebuilding ties to the Saudis, the gulf states and Jordan...