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Since Reagan has flunked the deficit-trimming test, and House Democratic leaders are equally loath to cut Social Security, the Senate Republican leaders have been left to salvage the situation. They decided to offer their own deficit-cutting plan two weeks ago after a meeting with Administration officials, including Baker, Richard Darman and Budget Director David Stockman...
...many members of Congress, the balloon seems filled with lead. They are loath to brave the wrath of the many constituents who would be hurt by the plan for the sake of a reform that does nothing to shrink the shockingly menacing deficit. Many would prefer to use tax reform as sugarcoating for a net tax increase, but that approach would clash head on with Reagan's diehard opposition to any overall tax boost. Consequently, Robert Dole, newly elected majority leader of the Republican-controlled Senate (see following story), gently told the White House that Congress would probably give...
...American League's West Division, the most admirable or deplorable in baseball, turned on small events. Loath to blame each other, California's affluent Angels considered themselves scuttled on fan appreciation day by an unappreciative fan who stayed with a foul pop-up even though Third Baseman Doug DeCinces had clearly called for it. This precipitated an extra-inning loss to Texas and so unnerved the Angels that they dropped the first three games of the climactic four-game series in Kansas City. Meanwhile, players of lesser means and greater resilience, the Minnesota Twins, were undone...
Still, Hollywood seems to be growing more safety-conscious, if not more cautious. The Screen Actors Guild reports that anonymous calls alerting it to unsafe sets have increased dramatically since the Twilight Zone accident. And stunt people - traditionally loath to turn down stunts for fear of losing a job, or face - are becoming more wary. "Ten years ago, we wouldn't have taken a second look before we did a stunt," says Fred Waugh, president of Stunts Unlimited. "Today we take a second or even a third." Many Hollywood officials hope the industry will step up its self-policing...
...Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige contended that Reagan should at least renew a proposal he made reluctantly last year for a threeyear, $50 billion tax increase, conditional on congressional approval of deep spending cuts and a string of other "ifs." But Reagan's philosophical convictions make him loath to propose any tax increase any time, and his political sensibilities make him doubly loath to do such a thing in an election year. At one point, aides inserted in a State of the Union draft a plan to appoint a bipartisan commission to make recommendations on how to attack...