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Washington swiftly rejected Brezhnev's proposals. "A freeze simply isn't good enough because it doesn't go far enough," said President Reagan in a speech to the Oklahoma state legislature. Instead, Reagan reminded Brezhnev of his "zero option" proposal made last November, in which the U.S. would forgo placing its new Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil if Moscow would scrap its arsenal of SS-20 missiles...
...President's boots stuck in the mud and only the quick reaction of two volunteer workers prevented him from falling into the slime. The incident was a fitting metaphor for Reagan's two-day trip, which also took him to Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Oklahoma City. The White House had been looking for ways to pull the President out of the thickening political muck in Washington and portray him as a man of compassion. The stopover in Fort Wayne provided just such an opportunity...
...never thought I'd wrestle a guy from Haaavard in the quarter-finals of the National Collegiate Wrestling Championships," said Oklahoma's Steve Williams after winning a hard-fought battle, 8-3, over Harvard heavyweight Jim Phills last week in the national quarter-finals in Ames, lows Williams, the 298-lb, first-string tackle for the Sooner football team--nicknamed "Dr Death" for the way that the handles opponents--finished second in the tourney, while Phills went home empty-handed after losing 9-3 to the eventual third-place finisher, Wayne Coles from lowa...
...Democrats, at least, were delighted. "We are fishing in the same waters," said Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, who three weeks ago proposed a somewhat more drastic freeze on federal spending. Added Congressman James Jones of Oklahoma, who heads the House Budget Committee: "Many of the elements are very close to what I've been saying have to be part of a compromise." Though White House aides found fault with the plan for its meager defense hikes and its politically explosive cuts in Social Security benefits, they were careful...
Chan is now conducting photo sessions at Oklahoma State University, where 200 women applied for interviews...