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...fiscal 1986, $20 billion the following year and $30 billion in 1988. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger adamantly insists on a $333 billion request for 1986, which would be a 7% increase after adjustment for inflation. At a Thursday meeting in the White House, House G.O.R Leader Robert Michel and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt got into what a Reagan aide described as a "heated" exchange with Weinberger. The lawmakers' point: Congress will not buy civilian spending cuts of anything like the depth the Administration desires unless the Pentagon shares in the sacrifice...
Nothing much happens in this gentle, acute, hugely affecting film from French Director Bertrand Tavernier (The Clockmaker, Coup de Torchon). Monsieur wakes, engages in a mild battle of wills with his sere housekeeper, dresses for the arrival of his son Gonzague (Michel Aumont). Gonzague's stern wife (Genevieve Mnich) lectures Monsieur fondly on his latest painting-"Put a cat on the divan; a cat is always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner...
...month standoff in the sub-Saharan former French colony, both Libya and France had, by mutual agreement, withdrawn all their troops. But had they? "Substantial Libyan troops remain in Chad," snapped U.S. State Department Spokesman John Hughes. "The Libyan troops have completely withdrawn," reiterated a piqued Jean-Michel Baylet, the French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Countered Chad's President, HissèneHabré, "The Libyan aggression has not ceased. That is the truth...
...year of optimism, many of their leaders had expected a happy answer. "If the tide is strong enough," Michigan's Guy Vander Jagt, chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, had predicted, "we could get 33 seats." A pickup of 30 G.O.R seats, agreed Illinois' Robert Michel, the House Republican leader, was "not unrealistic." The presidential tide turned out to be powerful indeed. Nonetheless, the Republicans apparently gained at most 15 seats. That falls significantly short of the 26 seats they lost to the Democrats in 1982 and leaves the President with a Congress that probably will...
ENTER, CHARLY. The wine commercial turns out to be an Israeli ruse to lure her to Greece where, according to the plan, she will ensnare the randy Michel and his brother Khalil with her womanly wiles...