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...been President for four years, who oversees the largest deficit in the nation's history, who is responsible for the deaths of 240 American Marines in Lebanon and who, by cutting social programs, has thrown half a million people into poverty be viewed as an innocent outsider? There are many Americans who wish that the President were an outsider. We will have to wait until November for our wish to come true...
...city is so conservative that even its gay community has a Reaganaut flavor."There are thousands of gay Republicans in this town," says one of them. "We pack some power." Dallas, with over 900,000 people, seventh biggest metropolis in the nation, is the largest city with a manager form of government. It wants the world to know that politics has no place in municipal services here. Sewers and garbage are attended to with dispatch. Potholes-called chuckholes in Dallas-are supposedly filled within three hours. Dallas is a clean family town. In preparation for the convention, a "Haul...
...London-based International Planned Parenthood Federation (I.P.P.F.), the largest nongovernmental family-planning organization in the world, does not advocate abortion, but it condones the practice when it is part of an individual country's program. Under the new U.S. policy, the organization stands to lose some $13 million in U.S. aid, or fully 25% of its budget. I.P.P.F. Deputy Secretary General Donald Lubin pointed out that of the 89 countries receiving I.P.P.F. grants in 1983, only twelve had abortion programs. "If they do cut the money, that would mean cutting back on programs, and ultimately, more abortions...
...Year's Day gridiron clashes between the likes of Ohio State and Southern Cal. But in the eyes of most of the world, real football came to the Rose Bowl last week, when Olympic soccer teams took the field. A throng of more than 100,000, the largest audience ever for a soccer game in the U.S., gathered to watch France defeat Brazil 2-0 in the final match last Saturday. The confrontation was the climax of a cross-country tournament that drew cheering crowds in Cambridge, Mass., Annapolis, Md., and Palo Alto, Calif., and had as competitors teams...
Once frumpy but now fashionable, the largest retailer turns style into big profits...