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Shortly before the holiday recess, Sofaer denied a series of motions by the Time Inc. attorneys to dismiss the case outright. But he reserved judgment on whether the magazine had been denied due process by the Israeli government's refusal to allow Time Inc.'s lawyers to see key documents, including the secret appendix, and question several Israeli officials. Sofaer has informed the Israeli government that the secret papers can be accepted as evidence only if attorneys from both sides are allowed direct access to them. In a statement attached to Sofaer's letter, Time Inc. attorneys...
...leaked in advance, and everyone assumed it was only an opening gambit. Even so, the scope of President Reagan's budget-cutting proposal was little short of staggering. As presented to the Cabinet last week, it would freeze dozens of politically popular spending programs and mark others for outright extinction. Among the phaseouts: the Small Business Administration and the Job Corps. In the plan's single biggest surprise, the President recommended a 5% pay cut next year for the Federal Government's 2.1 million civilian employees, an idea untried since the depths of the Depression. He prodded...
...Nicaragua respectively assailed and praised the court's decision last week, both countries continued to accuse each other of preparing for outright warfare. The U.S. claimed that it had sighted six Soviet ships laden with arms and bound for Nicaragua. Perhaps chastened by mistaken allegations last month that Soviet MiG-21 fighter planes were being unloaded in the Nicaraguan port of Corinto, the Administration did not commit itself to specifying what arms the ships were carrying. But President Reagan warned again last week that if sophisticated Soviet aircraft are sent to Central America, "this is something we cannot...
Federal Reserve officials brush aside such doomsaying. Says Volcker: "The current pause in economic growth need be no more than that." Agrees Anthony Solomon, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank: "These signs of outright weakness are likely to prove temporary...
...just two weeks ago they were on schedule to become Harvard's first outright titlist since 1974. Then came Penn. Then came Yale...