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...production votes from Washington Democrat Norman Dicks. Several Republicans who did not want to be lobbied by Reagan told Dicks, "I'm probably going to vote with you, but don't tell the White House." Despite the heat, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott, working with Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois to support Reagan's position, concluded that the President would lose. He gave White House aides the news so that Reagan could withdraw from an all-out fight, perhaps by agreeing to reconsider the basing mode, and avoid a repudiation. Reagan refused...
...accusations flew, only the French openly blamed GATT and the free trading systems for the world's current economic ills. With his nation stirring controversy in Europe over an ingenious new barrier against Japanese video recorders (see box), acerbic French Trade Minister Michel Jobert lambasted U.S. free trade principles as a "formula of dogmatic liberalism" yielding "subtle" forms of protectionism, and argued that in any case high interest rates and currency fluctuations, not trade barriers, caused joblessness...
...years, Republican Congressman Robert Michel has played well in Peoria, the Everytown of American politics. He has become an institution there, much like the local Caterpillar Tractor plant. But along with much of the nation, Peoria (pop. 124,000) has suffered the ravages of recession and unemployment. Caterpillar has laid off 8,000 employees, and joblessness has hovered at 16%, the highest rate since the Depression. So for the House Republican leader, who shepherded President Reagan's budget and tax cuts through Congress, the overriding national issue of the 1982 campaign, the economy, was a local issue?and a survival...
...Michel survived last Tuesday's test, but just barely (51.6% to 48.4%). The message he received from his constituents was clear. "We've listened and learned, and we will take what we've learned back to Washington," said a chastened Michel. "There will have to be some adjustments, some modifications in the things we are doing. No question about...
...fact, the limited nature of the Democratic victory contained a silver lining for some party members. Tip O'Neill was privately relieved that Robert Michel was returned, because Democrats feel he is not an unbending ideologue. Other Democrats also professed some relief that they did not take a slim majority in the Senate, and thus face having to initiate their own alternative programs. Says Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts: "It's better not to give Reagan a Democratic Congress to run against. And by being in the wilderness for another two years, we will be a stronger party...