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Champagne opened with white, promising to follow a secret Russian strategy, but observers said yesterday that it's too early to predict a winner in this thinking-man's version of The Game...
...committees, which have become a major force under the new rules, tend to be made up of such pro-G.O.P. elements as conservative businessmen and members of the Moral Majority and the New Right. But pro-Democratic groups are assembling to join the financing fray. And experts therefore predict even greater spending by such organizations in coming elections. That result is fine with Senator Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico, whose Americans for Change was a winner in the case. "It involves more people in the political process," he says...
Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, yesterday declined to predict whether the bill would go through. He said he had assisted members of the Association of American Universities (AAU) in preparing testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, which held hearings this week, as did the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs...
...formidable. When the media clamps down, Reagan returns the favor by trying to seal leaks or dismissing queries with something akin to "There you go again," casting reporters as enemies of the national interest. Here the ruthless Realist in Reagan overshadows the Libertarian. When the Democrats dare to predict that Reagan's grand design will crumble under the weight of its internal contradictions, the president responds by calling these condemnations "wild charges" and warning his public not to "be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy and the helpless." Here the purblind Idealist...
White's technology often seems creaky, partly because he was a pioneer. Modern sci-fi doomsdayers would never predict the end of the world from an excess of radio waves, or have radial-engine Curtiss Condor transports symbolize the overreach of the air age. Even so, White was always among the first to discern the now familiar signs and portents: ecological disturbances, the decline of various species, the discovery that last year's medical boons may lead to tomorrow's degenerative diseases, the horrors of a mindless but ubiquitous visual press, and the debilitating result of trying...