Word: pledgees
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In the first weeks of the new year Iran expelled U.S. journalists for unfriendly reporting, and Abolhassan Banisadr, the country's new President, called the hostage crisis "a minor affair, easily settled." Banisadr, who had been Foreign Minister until replaced by the truculent Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, publicly doubted the wisdom...
In early September, Secretary of State Muskie sent a letter asking for the hostages' release to Mohammed Ali Raja'i, the devout Khomeini follower who was Iran's new Prime Minister. The letter was the first direct communication between the governments since before the April raid. Khomeini...
Carter, who campaigned in 1976 on a pledge to balance the budget by 1981, was obviously trying to leave office with as small a deficit as possible, and he sometimes used mirrors to accomplish that. His revenue estimates, for example, include $13.1 billion from a proposed extra 10?-per-gal...
As spending surges, the tax burden grows steadily heavier. Next year federal revenues will consume 22% of the gross national product, up from 18% in 1976. Carter's budget includes no personal tax relief in 1981 and only a token $9 billion cut in 1982. Even that reduction will...
Ronald Reagan may have campaigned on a pledge to cut spending, but he clearly does not believe that aus terity must begin at home - at least not so far as the Jan. 20 Inauguration is concerned. In a return to an older elegance, Reagan and his entourage will wear formal...