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...dealing with a divided Congress and restoring his deteriorating popularity. These goals are related. For him to prevail in Congress, he must improve his public standing. That, in turn, will require him to convince the nation that the economy, as he said twice in his address, "is on the mend." He carried that theme to Boston, and he will take it this week to Missouri and Maryland. He has reason to be hope ful. Last week it was announced that the index of leading economic indicators rose 1.5% in December, the largest gain in two years. The index, which forecasts...
...freeze that really is not a freeze, and a plan to reduce deficits that would still leave them distressingly high. Moreover, it bases all calculations on a set of predictions about unemployment, output and interest rates so gloomy as to make clear that if the economy is "on the mend," as Reagan proclaims, the mending will be excruciatingly slow...
...very close to his wife, had postponed his trip to the U.S. several times in order to remain by her side. The fact that he should travel abroad at all, knowing that Aliza's health was failing, was an indication of how seriously he wanted to mend relations with the U.S. in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
DIED. Pierre Mendès France, 75, Premier of France (1954-55) and respected godfather of the French left; of a heart attack; in Paris. A brilliant lawyer, courageous World War II pilot and intellectual...
...Mendès France believed his country should forget its grand imperial illusions and curb centralized executive power. During his brief, 7½-month tenure as Premier, he pledged to end France's Indochina war within one month (and did so), gave autonomy to Tunisia and persuaded France's National Assembly to approve West German rearmament. Often politically unpopular because of his abrasive righteousness, Mendès France earned numerous enemies (including Charles de Gaulle) and was sometimes ridiculed, notably for his ill-starred recommendation that the bibulous French switch from wine to milk. But said Disciple Fran...