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been going through a grueling monthlong song-and-dance rehearsal. Though Welch has displayed her musical and other talents for the Las Vegas crowd, she has never faced the jaded playgoers of Broadway. Says Welch: "I've always had a dread of the New York critics, but they can't close me because I'm closing in two weeks anyway...
...Egypt and the Sudan. In addition, Washington last week dispatched two AW ACS planes from the U.S. to Egypt both to symbolize U.S. commitment and to improve that country's air surveillance of Libya. Finally, officials in Washington and Cairo were still working out details of a monthlong joint military training exercise, code-named "Bright Star," scheduled to begin next month in Egypt. Some 4,000 U.S. troops will take part in the maneuvers, which were planned months before Sadat's death. The Sudan will join the exercise, and Washington is trying to persuade Oman and Somalia...
When Reagan left Washington in August for a monthlong vacation at his California ranch, he had just wrapped up Chapter 1 and had every reason to feel satisfied, even a bit smug. No President since Franklin D. Roosevelt had done so much so quickly to change the basic path of the American economy. Though critics had confidently predicted that Congress would never go along with his daring "supply-side" strategy of large budget cuts and deep tax reductions, Reagan had pushed his programs through the House and Senate virtually intact...
...Defense Caspar W. Weinberger almost from the day last January that he moved into the E Ring of the Pentagon, and they have given countless anxious moments to Commander in Chief Ronald Reagan as well. But the legislative timetable permits no further delay. So, before Congress breaks for its monthlong August recess, the Administration hopes to disclose what kind of missile and bomber forces it proposes to deploy to maintain U.S. retaliatory capacity through the rest of the 1980s and probably well into the 1990s...
...improvement, but these are still outweighed by the evidence of weakness. Inflation is on the wane in Great Britain, but unemployment could rise to 12% or 13% by the end of 1981. Last week some 60,000 people gathered in London's Trafalgar Square to climax a monthlong unemployment protest. Public spending is expected to jump sharply in France under newly elected Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who took the first step in that direction last week when he raised the minimum wage by 10% (to $503 a month) and increased outlays for other social benefits...