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...support in the House for any budget that reflects his compromise proposals, Reagan must attract more Democrats than the 40 conservative "Boll Weevils" who helped him pass last year's tax and budget cuts. Reason: a number of the moderate "Gypsy Moth" Republicans from the Northeast and Midwest, wary of both deficits and further trims in social spending, are not likely to back him as solidly this year...
Some experts, though, are starting to warn that a paucity of engineers may hold back American economic and technological development. High-tech companies in the Sunbelt and the Northeast seem most concerned. Says William Howard, a vice president of Motorola who is based in Arizona: "The shortage has slowed down our progress, slowed down our development of new processes and slowed down our ability to do maintenance. The net effect is to put things on hold or do them more slowly until we can recruit the talent." A study prepared for California Governor Jerry Brown Jr. showed that the state...
This year was different. Western papers won five of the twelve journalism awards announced last week, including those for local, national and investigative reporting, editorial cartooning and criticism, the last given to Music Critic Martin Bernheimer of the Los Angeles Times. Only two citations went to papers in the Northeast-both to the New York Times, for John Darnton's dispatches from Poland and for Jack Rosenthal's editorials, bringing the paper's alltime total to 50. Among winners: Seattle Times Reporter Paul Henderson, for proving that a man convicted of rape was innocent; the Kansas City...
...have been hit by at least 23 tornadoes. The toll: 26 dead, more than 300 injured and about $55 million in property damage. Governors of three states have already asked the Federal Government to declare the affected communities disaster areas. Farther north, the snows that blanketed the Midwest and Northeast claimed at least 40 lives. In Iowa, five people died in traffic accidents after a storm with 40-m.p.h. winds dropped 8 in. of snow. Disaster was narrowly averted in Harrington Park, N.J., where a foot of snow stalled a bus at a railroad crossing. Minutes after Driver Peter Woelfel...
...Navy falters Cornell should be there to fill the void. The Big Red lost only two players (Greg Allen and Bill Bacon) from last year's third-place team to graduation, and began the 1982 season with an impressive 4-3 California trip before returning to the snowy Northeast...