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...just about to make his surprise announcement of a new Interior Secretary, but Laxalt had other important political business to discuss in the Oval Office last Thursday afternoon. "I'd like authorization in writing to go ahead and form the committee for your re-election," said the Nevada Republican. The senior presidential aides in the room-James Baker, Michael Deaver, Edward Rollins-waited for the answer. They all knew that although the President seemed ready to run for another term, he did not want to make it formal at this time. Reluctantly, Reagan agreed with Laxalt's recommendation...
...divorces (1.2 million) declined by 3%, the first decrease since 1962; the divorce rate (5.1 per 1,000 people) showed a 4% drop from 1981. The divorce rate last year ranged from a low 3.2 per 1,000 in Pennsylvania to a high 13.9 per 1,000 in Nevada and 8.3 in Alaska. Marriages (2.5 million) boomed for the seventh straight year and reached the highest rate (10.8 per 1,000) since 1973. The sharpest rises, 5% and 6% respectively, occurred in the Middle Atlantic states and New England. The dip in the divorce rate may be partly the result...
...comparatively underpopulated Rocky Mountain states are expected to fill up at the most spectacular rate, with the region's population almost doubling by 2000. Six of the seven fastest-growing states lie between the Plains and the Sierra Nevada. The state of Nevada, growing most rapidly of all, is expected to increase its population from about 800,000 to almost 2 million by the start of the 21st century...
...faith that no weather is truly inexplicable, said that the drought in the Midwest has been caused by a particularly stubborn high-pressure system stuck over the center of the country. The system has been pulling rain-bearing winds from the Gulf of Mexico to Southern California and Nevada. Alicia was caused by a cooler front slanting down from Canada along the East Coast. As its leading edge crashed into the hot air over the gulf, a storm was born that soon grew into a hurricane...
...bringing rain to the dry fields of the Midwest, she is also edging the brutish high-pressure system eastward. That could cause a lot of raised temperatures this week on the East Coast, but it might salvage some of the harvest in the Midwest and allow Southern California and Nevada to dry out. For a nation coping with a most cantankerous and confounding summer, such a shift would be welcome indeed...