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...original Planning Office estimate, theletter states, was based upon what it calls"conventional financing schemes." But theactivists claim in their letter that through someinnovative financing plans, their proposal isfinancially feasible. By raising $1.5 million fromthe outset, borrowing subsidized state and federalhousing loans, and getting some labor andarchitectural costs donated, they think they cansignificantly lower the cost of their development...
...country's historic experiment in what the French call cohabitation. This refers to the power sharing that will now ensue between Mitterrand and France's resurgent conservatives, led by Chirac's neo-Gaullist R.P.R. and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy. At the outset, some observers feared that the odd coupling, a direct result of the March 16 parliamentary elections that gave the conservative coalition a narrow parliamentary majority, would produce only paralysis and instability. To others, it promised to usher in a new age of pragmatism, cooperation and maturity in French politics...
...light of the surprise revolt, it was not clear precisely what Habib had accomplished during his hectic meetings with Marcos, Aquino and church leaders. From the outset, however, his mission had been hampered by a presidential gaffe that had aroused suspicion on both sides. Though nearly all election-day reports of vote fraud involved Marcos supporters, Reagan offhandedly told a news conference on Feb. 11 that abuse might have occurred on both sides. A few days later the White House reversed itself, issuing a statement that blamed Marcos for the irregularities...
...FROM THE OUTSET, we know that we will be left to contemplate the inexplicable actions of emotionally confused people. In the opening scene Dave looks into the camera and tells us that Judy, his wife of five years, came home one day two years ago and without warning said she was going to leave him. It wasn't that she didn't love Dave anymore, she just wanted to be really happy. Judy thought something was missing in her life, though she didn't know what it was or whether it existed at all. She just knew that...
Reagan's session with reporters was his first in five weeks and the 34th of his presidency. It was a session dominated from the outset by foreign policy questions...