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...second Inaugural Address, only delivered with more polish. The President in effect used the prime-time opportunity to give the hard sell to his major programs: tax reform without revenue increases, a continuation of the military buildup in tandem with arms-control talks and a determination to proceed with the controversial Star Wars antimissile defense. If there was any moderately fresh emphasis, it was on reaching out to minorities and the poor, albeit on the terms that the President has always advocated: that economic growth is the key to leaving no one behind. Said Reagan: "There must be no forgotten...
...wife Lee Hee Ho, 22 U.S. companions and 50 journalists stepped off Northwest Airlines Flight 191 at Kimpo International Airport, they were met by about 50 security guards who tried to whisk Kim away. He refused to go along. He feared for his safety, he said, and preferred to proceed through normal immigration channels. After a heated discussion, the guards slammed Kim into an elevator and took him into custody. Several protesting Americans were shoved and punched. Among them: Democratic Congressmen Edward Feighan of Ohio and Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania, and Patt Derian, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights...
...more influence than people generally realize," says Michael Deaver, the departing White House deputy chief of staff and long her principal ally in the Administration. Even when she does not make her position known on an issue, Administration officials have learned to anticipate her potential support or opposition and proceed accordingly. "The threat of her influence," says one White House aide, "is as important as her real influence...
...Reagan's Star Wars plan (see following story). But this would amount to putting Star Wars on the bargaining table only in the most technical sense; McFarlane insisted that the Strategic Defense Initiative, as it is formally called, "is not a bargaining chip," and the President unmistakably wants to proceed full speed ahead on it. Reagan met on Friday with twelve Senate and 14 House leaders to press the case for doing so. In the Administration's view, talks on defensive weapons would in effect consist of a series of American lectures on the virtues of having "each side turn...
...concrete" on defense spending and adds, "Most people with their feet in concrete are dead at the bottom of the river." A White House staff member concedes that "the question is whether we are part of the process" or whether Congress will simply ignore Reagan's budget and proceed to write...