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...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...
Says Reagan's campaign chairman, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt: "In modern political history, no one has ever had a firmer base of support over a matter of months. It has been a wall of granite." A Mondale strategist offers the same fundamental analysis. Says he: "The President's favorability rating in the polls stayed at about 60% throughout the election. The voters stayed...
...Nevada voters turned down Question 12, which would have required a two-thirds vote of the state legislature plus a majority vote of the electorate before any tax or fee, even on dog licenses, could be levied or raised. It would have put a 5% cap on property tax increases. Democratic Governor Richard Bryan and Republican Lieutenant Governor Bob Cashell were strong opponents, as were members of the state's influential gaming industry, who feared Question 12 would result in higher gambling taxes...
Jarvis' proposal is one of more than 200 initiatives and referendums that voters in 42 states will be considering on Nov. 6. This year's economic recovery has led to some sweeping antitax initiatives recalling the tax revolt that peaked with Proposition 13. California, Michigan and Nevada, for example, have proposals on the ballot that would not only limit property taxes but also restrict state and local governments from using fees or other sources to raise revenue without voter approval...
...real trouble comes with the mechanical series of adventures King and Straub have invented for Jack to battle through on his way to the talisman. The hoodoos encountered in a rancid roadhouse in New York, a corrupt orphanage in Ohio, and a nuclear-wasted parallel-Nevada in the Territories are maggoty and colorful, but also wearisomely repetitive. The horrors there on the page are visually ingenious, but they never echo in the mind. Jack Sawyer has two unvarying reactions, fearfulness and pluck. The co-written sentences are so gaudy and muscular they seem phony, like the deltoids of a bodybuilder...