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...Bank and Gaza Strip. Two weeks ago, the Begin government barely survived a no-confidence motion that ended in a 58-58 tie vote. But for a budget vote last week, Begin gained the tacit support of an opposition member, Mordechai Ben-Porat of the TELEM party. Then at midweek, the Knesset took a five-week recess for the Passover holiday. The government thus seemed to be secure until the Knesset meets again in early May, and by that time the politically sensitive withdrawal from the Sinai will have been completed...
Some of the bugs in the shuttle did not catch the astronauts by surprise. During a midweek telecast, Lousma and Fullerton unveiled a cage full of insect passengers, three dozen caterpillar moths, house flies and honeybees. They were on board at the suggestion of Todd Nelson, 18, of Rose Creek, Minn., winner of a nationwide contest for high school students. The object of Todd's experiment: to determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they...
Back in Washington at midweek, the President was immediately preoccupied with the problems he had left behind. The most pressing of these were economic, centering on the growing national concern about a deepening recession (see BUSINESS). In a broader sense, the President was facing more and more questions about the credibility of his leadership. The congressional battle over his proposed $757.6 billion budget, which will lead to a 1983 deficit of at least $96 billion and probably more, is his biggest challenge at the moment. Buoyed by warm receptions in the hinterlands, Reagan seemed more convinced than ever that...
...remaining chance that Reagan's 1983 budget would be passed intact was lost at midweek when Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, one of the Administration's key budget operatives in Congress, declared his opposition. Said Domenici: "Political leaders do all a disservice by pretending that we can swallow $100 billion-plus deficits as though they were aspirin tablets." Offering his own remedy for the deficit headache, he proposed trimming defense spending by limiting its growth to 5% after inflation, thereby saving $20 to $25 billion over the next three years. His plan also called for freezing...
...some so-called givebacks of past salary and benefit gains but assuring some job security during the next 31 months, the new contract between the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers raced through the union ratification process last week like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. By midweek, the agreement had been approved by the U.A.W.'s international executive board and the Ford unit council meeting in Chicago. Decisive rank-and-file endorsement is this week by the 160,000 U.A.W. members who are Ford employees, with the contract going into effect March...