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...essential optimism more infectiously than Ronald Reagan. But his power of positive thinking, while it lifts national morale, has not served to cure every problem. Faith in supply-side growth, for example, has done nothing to slow the runaway federal deficit. By insisting that he can at once proceed with SDI while persuading the Soviets to make deep reductions in strategic weapons, Reagan may be engaging in even more wishful thinking...
...Journal, Brucan opines that if China succeeds in building a modern economy "the Kremlin will then be confronted with a dramatic choice: to cling to the old ways and rely more and more on military power to exert its influence, or to take the bull by the horns and proceed with a radical change in both economic policy and global strategy. The issue of leadership in the Communist movement will depend on that choice...
...R.C.F.P. steering committee nevertheless voted 16 to 10 to proceed with this week's showing. (Two TIME correspondents on the committee, Hays Gorey and David Beckwith, abstained.) Proponents of the screening point out that the film raises important journalistic issues and that the group has sponsored showings of other movies, like Absence of Malice, with views it did not necessarily endorse. HBO meanwhile staunchly defends the movie. "The people at CBS are too close to the subject," says HBO President Michael Fuchs. "We made Murrow for our audience and not for CBS News...
...state's teachers, had brought suit to block the test, claiming that teacher certification comprised a lifetime contract, which the 1984 act violated ex post facto. In a decision handed down the week before the test date, Travis County District Judge Harley Clark ruled that the test could proceed. The teachers, backed by the National Education Association, the umbrella union for the state association, will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, which may rule on the exam's validity before the results come out in June...
...extraordinarily difficult moment for President Johnson. I never hesitated to disagree with a unanimous recommendation of the Joint Chiefs if I felt it was the wrong decision. In this case, however, Congress had already passed a law authorizing production of the ABM system. To continue to refuse to proceed in the direction that had been supported by the Congress, and to do so in the face of a unanimous recommendation by the Chiefs, put the President in an almost untenable position...