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...Finally, Israel suffered in U.S. public opinion, at least early in the crisis. A Washington Post-ABC News poll taken as the hostages were being released showed that one-third of the sample agreed with the assertion that "the U.S. should reduce its ties to Israel in order to lessen the acts of terrorism against Americans in the Middle East." The same poll, however, showed that the percentage of those who felt Israel had not done enough to help resolve the crisis had fallen from...
...presenting his plan as providing "relief" from taxation and getting the Government "off our backs," Reagan is engaging in a bit of sleight of hand. The bill is designed to be revenue neutral. It would rearrange the tax burden rather than lessen the Government's impact on the economy. By depicting the proposal in ideological terms, Reagan may also risk losing the support of Democratic centrists who are sympathetic to the plan but not to the fustian accompanying it. "The President has to keep his message in single-minded focus," says one G.O.P. analyst. "To the extent that the message...
Reagan opposes this arrangement on both philosophical and financial grounds. By allowing residents of high-tax states to lessen their federal obligation, he contends, Washington in effect underwrites big spending at the statehouse level, which he abhors. Moreover, since only one-third of U.S. tax returns are itemized, Reagan notes, the benefit is not even available to a majority of taxpayers. "But they are being forced to subsidize the high-tax policies of a handful of states," the President said in his speech Tuesday evening. "This is truly taxation without representation...
...Colonel John Garang, urged them to make peace with the new ; government in Khartoum. But the council has so far been unable to achieve a reconciliation with Garang, who said his rebels would continue to fight until the government is entirely in the hands of civilians. His intransigence may lessen, however. Said a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "There is already a lot of dismay by southerners who would like to give the new government a chance...
...apparently was a coincidence, but mobsters worried about informants who might cooperate with prosecutors to lessen their own penalties could take no comfort from hearings conducted in Miami last week by the President's Commission on Organized Crime. That group paraded a number of former Mafiosi who publicly regretted their criminal past. Luigi Ronsisvalle, 44, told of growing up in Sicily, where he followed Mafia developments "like an American kid follows baseball." He said he spent 13 years in the syndicate, mostly as a hit man, after moving to New York City, and eventually killed 13 people. He also took...