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...some of the funds to create public service jobs. House Speaker Tip O'Neill has criticized Reagan for the growing unemployment lines, but so far has not suggested a plan of his own. An aide to the Speaker may inadvertently have best summed up the Democrats' plight. "Our alternative is that the President should advocate an alternative," said the spokesman. "That's our alternative...
...been a good one for Republicans. Yet for all the White House worries about G.O.P. fortunes in the fall, it is not clear that Reagan will suffer much politically. Interviewing the jobless across the nation last week, TIME correspondents found relatively few who blamed the President for their plight. Rudy Barker, 62, was laid off in 1980 from his job at a lumber mill in Willamina, Ore., and he has not worked since then. "All this started before Reagan," he says. "It's been coming on for the last two or three Presidents." Says Samuel Ehrenhalt, Middle Atlantic regional...
...labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of state to deliver speeches; and a New Jersey native-Frank Sinatra-to sing Ever Homeward, in Polish. According to the ICA, the program aimed to "reflect the widespread international concern for the plight of the people of Poland." ICA Director Charles Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late Tommy Dorsey's band, dreamed up the project shortly after the imposition of martial law. He rejects suggestions that a television spectacular, however heartfelt, was an inappropriate response to military repression. Says...
...Builders, the mood was distinctly chilly. In the past two years, sky-high and gyrating interest rates have pitched the American housing industry into its worst sales slump since 1946. Now a rising chorus of critics in the Administration and Congress has begun blaming Volcker for housing's plight and for the recession that is spreading through the economy...
Karpatkin, executive director since 1974, insists that the new ventures are vital to Consumers Union. She attributes the financial plight to the state of the economy and a postal rate increase that will cost the magazine an additional $2 million per year. Says she: "The Reagan recession hit us, and our promotion results softened in the first part of the fiscal year. The second thing was a massive postal increase...