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That amiable scene obscured some harsh realities. Despite Reagan's optimism, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, Senator and Reagan Confidant Paul Laxalt and House Minority Leader Bob Michel had asked for the White House meeting to deliver a message that was grim, no matter how gently they phrased it: Republicans on Capitol Hill will simply not accept a budget involving such unprecedented deficits...
...brink of national bankruptcy, slipped over the edge." Declared Republican Senator William Armstrong, a key member of the Senate Budget Committee: "There is close to no chance that Reagan's budget will pass. Very few Republicans would vote for it. I know of no one." Fretted Michel: "The overriding consideration is the size of that deficit. It's mind boggling." Added Senate Republican Whip Ted Stevens: "I'm in sort of a state of shock...
...Government officials could learn a lesson from French Philosopher-Historian Michel Foucault's process of reversing questions [Nov. 16]. Instead of asking why industry must endure "burdensome" regulations, Federal authorities should turn the question around and ask why were the rules enacted in the first place? They will find that the regulated industries, on the whole, refused to act in a responsible manner...
...main lesson of the long, chaotic weekend was that the budgetmaking machinery of the Government had broken down. "The process stinks," said House Republican Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois derided the deadline jockeying as a "flimflam." The experience, said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was a "political nightmare...
...only pacifist organization of any consequence in France is the Mouvement de la Paix, headed by Michel Langignon, 68, an affable grandfather who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1942. The group's only significant achievement is the modest march it organized on Oct. 25 in Paris. On the ground floor of Langignon's offices in a working-class section of Paris is a collection of posters that includes onetime Member Pablo Picasso's sketch of the dove that became the familiar peace emblem. "Picasso said he didn't have enough time to think up a symbol...