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Even Hatcher, who feuded with Gary's business community for three terms, has been trying to mend fences. He recently signed a tax abatement bill to spur investment in plants, land and equipment, and has unproved relations with U.S. Steel, which has announced that Gary will become the center of its steel operation. "I could be elected as many times as I want without the support of the business community, but I can't govern effectively without that support," Hatcher says...
...govern effectively, Washington must mend fences with the city bureaucracy, which is composed mostly of machine loyalists. He will also have to make peace with the police department; many officers openly worked for Epton and the chief, under bitter attack from Washington, announced his resignation a week before the election. By declaring during during the campaign that taxes would have to be increased, Washington has allowed himself room to tackle Chicago's growing financial problems, that is if he can get the necessary support from the city council. For all his talk of conciliation, the mayor-elect quickly served...
...year later, as contradictory signals emanate from Argentina, the long term effects of the United States decision to back the British are still unclear. Ronald Reagan made an attempt to mend some fences on his trip to Latin America last year, and Argentinian-trained insurgents supplied with U.S. arms were responsible for the destruction of port installations at Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua in 1983. Funding for training Argentinian soldiers is included in the current Reagan budget, some economic limitations have been lifted, and the President would clearly like to loosen arms restrictions Argentina, however, has been making friendly overtures...
...workers live over there in Colbert, while management lives back across the river here in Lauderdale. Now, however, the dry Chamber is talking with the wet Chamber over yonder about a merger. The view behind this turn seems to be that while the American economy may be on the mend, it will not be a fast mend, like darning a sock, and, rather than wait, well, liquor is quicker. - By Gregory Jaynes
Reagan's political strategy will succeed only if the public sees tangible evidence that his on-the-mend optimism is warranted. But even if the economy rebounds strongly, the country will still face staggering deficits. Indeed, a sudden and too robust economic revival could strangle itself by pushing interest rates back up as the Government and industries compete for loans. This concern was echoed last week in an unusually forceful report by the Congressional Budget Office. "The American economy faces unprecedented risks in the years ahead," said the report, "unless the Federal Government takes measures to narrow...