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...considers it his major diplomatic achievement; but most U.S. officials, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, have concluded that the agreement must be sacrificed. In their view, the choice is a Gemayel regime without the accord, or a less friendly successor without the accord. Gemayel remains unsure of how to jettison the agreement; according to U.S. diplomats, the Lebanese President is still telling Muslims he never ratified the pact, while reminding the Israelis and Christians that he never abandoned it. "Gemayel is still trying to walk the fence," says an American official. "He'll stay on it as long...
...proposal, defeated last December. And, like the recently enacted Social Security-reform package, the recommendations represent a bipartisan political compromise. But the proposed solution still faces problems on Capitol Hill. The commission has argued that the combination of recommendations is a seamless package, but an effort in Congress to jettison the MX and vote only on the Midgetman seems likely. "Few, if any, will consider our recommendations an optimal solution," summed up retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, the panel's chairman. "If such were available, this commission probably would not have been convened...
...years ago, he was, he said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered a demoralizing defeat in a by-election last December, the party decided to jettison Bill Hayden, 50, its colorless longtime leader, and gamble on Hawke's double-edged magnetism...
Like the bathtub, a telephone can be found in nearly every American home, and, until now, it has been equally taken for granted. Yet, all of a sudden, consumers are being urged to jettison their old view of the phone as a utilitarian item and look at it as a fancy new entry on a shopping list. Local Bell System companies, as well as AT&T's brand-new baby, American Bell Inc., are beseeching customers to buy telephones instead of leasing them, and even to plug more of them into their homes. Department, specialty and discount stores...
...showdown over the continuing resolution was averted at the last moment when a House-Senate conference committee agreed to jettison a "jobs bill" that both chambers had attached to the measure. The Democratic House had voted $5.4 billion for the program, and the Republican Senate had approved a $1.2 billion figure. But Reagan, with much justification, argued that both versions were motley collections of local pork-barrel projects masquerading as jobs programs. He threatened to veto the entire continuing resolution, an act that would have shut down much of the Federal government last week, unless the job amendments were scuttled...