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...show's headliner, Ronald Rea gan, was not due in town until Wednesday. Earlier in the week he planned to make campaign stops in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. He was also putting the finishing touches on his Thursday-evening acceptance speech, an occasion that will mark the beginning of his last campaign for public office (see following story) and provide him with an opportunity to outline his vision of the Republican Party's future...
...moment, the budget gap is indeed being left unattended. Though Rea gan in his State of the Union address called for a budget-reduction "down payment" of $100 billion over three years, negotiators from the White House and Congress have had only three halfhearted and inconclusive meetings on where to begin. Last week the President and the Democrats were pointing fingers at each other over who was really to blame for the huge deficits. Said Reagan in a press conference: "I am a little struck by these born-again budget balancers, who for 40 out of the last 44 years...
...squabbling among his advisers reinforced the President's deep distrust of economists. In a January radio address, he described economic forecasting as "far from a perfect science" and called economists "naysayers" and "doom criers." Though Rea gan was never a doctrinaire supply-sider who believed that deficits were nothing to get too concerned about, the President apparently refuses to believe that the budget gap will be as big and as harmful as Feldstein thinks...
Pressure to do just that is growing. House Speaker Tip O'Neill announced that he will meet with 14 Democratic Congressmen this week to reassess the House majority's attitude toward Rea gan's Lebanon policy. In September, the Democrats gave Reagan enough votes to extend the Marines' stay in Lebanon until April 1985. An aide to Republican Sena tor Howard Baker said that the Majority Leader also expects a bipartisan push for an early Marine pullout when the Congress reconvenes on Jan. 23. While Rea gan's own rhetoric about not yielding to terrorism...
...paper's rehabilitation began in the mid-1970s under Rea Hederman, whose family had owned the publication for more than 40 years. Hederman expanded the staff and news budget. Editors began to pursue promising young reporters, even from other states. To help gain credibility among blacks, who are 42% of Jackson's population, the paper increased black coverage and staff (current total: four of the 27 reporters...