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...Marines in Lebanon is a sore point; 49% of the people questioned in last week's Times/CBS poll wanted them brought home, vs. only 35% in October. "If Lebanon is in no better shape during the campaign than it is today, that could be a real problem," says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's close friend and chairman of his campaign committee. Laxalt adds, "We have told Reagan that as we travel around the country, we find people are nervous about a new cold war. They don't like it when the two superpowers don't talk...
...regional phone companies and the American public will probably adjust to the new world of phone service more easily than they thought last week. H. Trevor Jones, president of PacTel Communications Systems, which is part of the new Pacific Telesis company, which covers California and Nevada, sees a parallel with the 1940s, when utilities stopped supplying light bulbs and people had to buy their...
...trends. We've really got the diversity problem whipped this time." exults Director of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67, pointing to a Class of '88 which includes 900 students with red hair, 200 who are fluent in Sanskrit, and 150 who hail from the same small town in northern Nevada. Minority statistics continue to rise, though observers predict more problems than usual in persuading all those who accepted to come to Harvard...
When the rumor of Baker's departure surfaced at an owners' meeting in Nashville, some political pros took it as a sign that Reagan might not seek a second term. Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, who heads the Reagan re-election effort, quickly reasserted that the President would declare his candidacy in late January, and stressed that Baker was "vital to the re-election effort. He's a hell of a lot more important than [Campaign Director] Ed Rollins or myself...
Many smaller states top those four in percentage increases. From the end of 1981 to the end of 1982, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, North Dakota increased its prison population by 28%; Alaska, 28%; Nevada, 25%; New Mexico, 23%; Oklahoma, 21%; and Hawaii, 18%. Arizona has doubled its prison population since...