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...startling 7.8% swing to Labor, which now controls four of Australia's seven regions. But Labor has often before led in the polls and lost at the polling booths. If Fraser is the man many Australians love to hate, Hawke may be the one they are loath to embrace. The Australian Financial Review, for example, portrays Hawke as "everybody's mate, but maybe not the person to make us make the hard choices." Australians face the first such choice this week as they determine whether Hawke's challenge is indeed prodigious, or simply presumptuous...
...unapologetically the real world. To those under investigation the commission was, in effect, putting the question "Who are you kidding?" And the question was not wholly rhetorical. In matters of guilt and innocence the gray area is often the largest, and this is the area judicial bodies are usually loath to enter. Yet this commission claimed the territory. Where the report might easily have shrugged away the problem of blame, asserting that these matters of moral choice are so private no one can plumb them, it said in stead these are private areas of conscience that everyone both understands...
...which begins in October. The President has proposed a spending "freeze" that will in fact reduce funds for some programs for the poor, such as food stamps and child nutrition, by about 8%, while boosting the defense budget by 14%. But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are loath to make further cuts in programs for the poor. Moreover, there is considerable bipartisan support for a public works jobs program to stimulate employment. Predicted Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts: "There will be a hell of a shift from defense to social programs, no doubt about...
Even some of the President's aides consider the proposal for stand-by tax increases to be a "Rube Goldberg" scheme that the legislature will reject. The tax-writing committees of Congress are loath to let the President specify the conditions under which levies should be raised. Republicans Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Barber Conable of New York, a tax expert in the House, put their opposition on the record last week. Many Congressmen and Senators also feel that a plan to raise taxes only if certain conditions prevail is inadequate. They will...
...week rejected a taunting suggestion from Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole, another commission member, that Reagan is "frightened to death about Social Security." Still, Reagan declared, "We are waiting for the commission to come back and tell us, could they agree on a plan." O'Neill, who is loath to consider a limit on benefits, nonetheless has said that he will go along with one if the commission's Democrats* endorse it. But he too takes the position that the commission must issue recommendations...