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...repeated shots that had been taped by WNEV-TV in Boston of Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe's parents viewing the launch at the Kennedy Space Center. But interviews with grieving relatives were refreshingly absent. Though NASA had immediately sequestered the crew's families following the accident, network executives insist they would have avoided such interviews in any case. "We had our chance at the time of the accident," says Jeff Gralnick, vice president and executive producer of special programming for ABC. "The first rule is not to badger the bereaved...
...President's opening gambit shows no give at all. The budget that he touts in his address to Congress and releases publicly on Wednesday is essentially a reiteration of his standard line. As he has done ever since he took office in 1981, Reagan will insist that it is possible to slash the deficit, increase defense spending (next year by 3% after inflation), and still not raise taxes. Using rosy economic forecasts to lowball the deficit, the White House would lop off the $40 billion or so mandated by Gramm-Rudman by making brutal cuts in domestic spending. Some federal...
...state of the union is strong, and America is on the move, Reagan will insist. From the carefully crafted lines he has prepared, one of his favored themes emerges: give the people credit for the past five successful years. Cheer the family, the moms and pops who tended their kids, worked hard at their jobs, risked their savings in new ventures and honored their traditions. Those people got America moving, and it is high time to reduce the federal budget and "leave the family budget alone...
Some individuals insist any discrimination is wrong, as witness Jeanne Wirka, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, quoted in the January-February 1985 issue of Harvard Magazine: "The problem with clubs is that they are denigrating to the outgroup in general. It's too bad that the issue has become 'should the clubs admit women?' The point is that the clubs should exclude everybody [sic]--they simply shouldn't be here, and Harvard shouldn't have anything to do with them." Jake Stevens '86, a member of the Committee on College Life, puts it less broadly, "The Committee acts...
...their shared characteristic, so long as their association does no great damage to those excluded. As, for instance, in the asymmetry between Harvard and Radcliffe; the men lose a few perquisites available to the women, but nothing of vital interest; the women, Radcliffe authorities (rather more than Radcliffe students) insist, profit greatly. Our national social history gives us plentiful reason to look askance at such groupings, but our political heritage should insulate us from the mistake of failing to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of free association...