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...Wednesday Britannia finally left Long Beach without its passengers. The royals and their household, 30 servants and aides in all, went ahead to San Francisco by jet and checked into the Westin St. Francis Hotel's $1,200-a-night Presidential Suite. (The U.S. Government picked up the tab.) Nancy Reagan, in turn, got the London Suite (the irony was accidental). The trio and their courtiers later hooked up at the Trafalgar Room (also happenstance) in Trader Vic's restaurant...
...crux of Spinney's analysis, titled The Plans/Reality Mismatch, is that the Administration's $1.6 trillion military buildup (which would amount to $20,000 for each U.S. household over the next five years) is likely to be underfunded by as much as 30%. This means that unless major new weapons are eliminated or other drastic changes made, the final bill may be $500 billion more than expected. The latest findings are a sequel to a 1980 Spinney report, Defense Facts of Life, which argued that the pursuit of complex technology has resulted in the production of weapons that...
...must have touched the heart of someone at Buckingham Palace when he wrote a plaintive letter to Queen Elizabeth II in 1980, asking for a job. Within weeks Kenny was hired as a stores (pantry) clerk and assigned lodgings in the staff quarters. Like all employees of the royal household, Kenny had to pledge in writing never to reveal to outsiders what goes on inside the royal residences...
British readers may never learn, however, what that headline was meant to imply. Deeply angered by the increasingly tasteless and intrusive reporting of Britain's tabloid press, the royal household struck back. Within hours after the Sun's opening story hit London newsstands, palace aides representing the Queen sought, and got, a permanent injunction from Britain's High Court banning any further disclosures by Kenny, the Sun or its parent News Group Newspapers Ltd., on the ground that publication would violate the former servant's contractual pledge of secrecy. News Group halted efforts to syndicate...
...improvement in the employment picture could help revive consumer confidence and boost spending. In addition, the 10% income tax cut scheduled for July 1 will raise household buying power. After three years of economic sluggishness, there is pent-up demand for houses, autos, appliances and other big-ticket items. Heller predicted that housing construction would rise by nearly 42% this year, to 1.5 million units, while auto sales would be up 22%, to 9.75 million...