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...bitterly controversial provision: no deductions for state and local income, sales or property taxes (see following story). This provision alone would raise $40 billion in extra taxes by 1990 and is justified by the Administration only partly on grounds of equity; a compelling reason is that the Administration just plain needs the money to pay for the rate reductions...
...high command to read in the military balance sheets published by organizations such as Jane's and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and in Flight International magazine and the International Defense Review. Even knowing the strategic plans of NATO for resisting a Soviet invasion across the north German plain is not all that important. What really interests the Soviets is such things as clues to laser components in systems for navigating nuclear submarines underwater, the guidance mechanisms of antitank missiles, and the engine air filters you put into battle tanks. The fact is that military technology has become...
...hours before the service, West German President Richard von Weizsacker had challenged his countrymen not to flinch from their responsibility for the Holocaust. "Every German was able to experience what his Jewish compatriots had to suffer, ranging from plain apathy and hidden intolerance to outright hatred," he declared in a speech in parliament. "But too many people (attempted) not to take notice of what was happening. When the unspeakable truth . . . became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, or even suspected anything...
...plain Americanness, Reagan is more like Ford or Truman or Eisenhower. But he is a better politician than Ford or Truman, and has had more of an idea of what he wanted to do as President than Ike did. Reagan neatly stood on its head a cherished assumption of most students of the presidency: that vigorous, ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar...
Gorbachev has now made plain his wishes for change, but achieving it is another question. Says Gregory Grossman, a specialist in Soviet economics at the University of California, Berkeley: "A new wind tends to blow most strongly in the Kremlin. It loses two-thirds of its force for every kilometer it moves outside." Yet Gorbachev is already demonstrating his intention to move rapidly, speak out and do whatever else may be necessary to give Soviet citizens a more positive feeling about their leadership...