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...President also called attention to a just released antiabortion film, The Silent Scream, a startling 28-minute documentary that shows ultrasound images of a twelve-week-old fetus being aborted. Activists predict the film will become a high-technology Uncle Tom's Cabin, arousing the public just as Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement. Declared Reagan: "It's been said that if every member of Congress could see that film, they would move quickly to end the tragedy of abortion." The producer, American Portrait Films of Anaheim, Calif., plans to mail the movie...
...shelter for the Ethiopians, the refugees are finding themselves in a nation that is almost as bereft of aid as the one they left. There are now about 1 million refugees in the country, and their numbers could swell by 600,000 by the end of March, relief officials predict. The worsening plight of the region, says a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, is rapidly becoming "a disaster of major proportions...
Associates and acquaintances of Regan predict, as Washington Lobbyist Jack Albertine puts it, that "he will be one of the strongest chiefs of staff in history. The White House will be a tight ship." That may be overstated, but it is clear that the collegial style of staff organization, in which Baker had ultimately emerged first among equals, had been breaking down. Meese had been sidetracked by his confirmation troubles and the investigations of his personal business dealings with friends who later gained federal jobs. Baker was burning out, and Deaver felt pinched on his Government salary...
There was one question in the beginning, not just puzzling but murky. How could almost every other team have been so wrong about Marino? "You can't predict that anyone is going to be better than anyone has ever been," Shula / says, a stunning sentence. "Before the college draft, everybody in the league calls up everybody else and lies to each other about which players we all like." As for the 1983 class, Miami agreed with the rest that the clear prize among five or six significant quarterback prospects was Stanford's John Elway, who broke in harshly last season...
...since 1978. That has made Japanese imports cheaper for U.S. shoppers, and American exports more expensive in Japan. Economists think the dollar may decline a bit over the next year or two, but not nearly enough to erase Japan's surplus. In fact, some Japanese trade experts predict that their country's favorable balance of trade with the U.S. could balloon to $75 billion...