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...year's budget. Then beginning with the fiscal-1987 budget that Reagan must submit next week, the restrictions become automatic. Discretion, choice, judgment--all are subordinated to the rule imposed by Gramm-Rudman that the deficit must be reduced in $36 billion increments each year until 1991, when the lion will lie down with the lamb and the deficit will total zero. The new law even dictates that half of the current cuts are to come from military spending (to be trimmed 4.9%) and half from nonmilitary outlays (4.3%). But not from us, the oysters began protesting...
...understatements that the keynote speaker delicately delivered in his tribute to a man who, above all else, was not given to understatement. The Vice President, eager to defuse the lingering ultraconservative hostility that could block his presidential ambitions for 1988, bravely forayed into the far- right corner of the lion's den last week to honor the memory of William Loeb, the late publisher of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader. No puller of punches, Loeb regularly aimed sprays of front-page vitriol at those he regarded as ideologically impure, Bush prominent among them...
...Signe Du Lion: film, French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Arlington...
Lured to Columbia last January as part of an effort to bolster the college's slumbering football program, Garrett had promised a 10-0 record for this year's Lion squad...
...marked the second straight year without a victory for Columbia, whose 0-10 record was the poorest by an Ivy League football team since the Ivy colleges began playing in 1869. The Lion losing streak stretched to 21 games, the longest among National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-AA teams...