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Whether the Navy will receive enough money to maintain its 13 carriers and expand the fleet to the nearly 600 ships that Holloway feels will be needed at the end of the century is a question that will be heatedly debated by Congress in the weeks ahead. To reach the Navy's goal would require spending about $5 billion extra annually. Even bringing the fleet up to the more modest level of 500 ships, which the Administration believes should be sufficient, would cost about $500 million a year more than Carter has requested...
...Washington bureaucracy. Long confined inside the Pentagon and waged with confidential memos, this acrimonious fight has now burst into the open. It is perhaps the nastiest battle on the banks of the Potomac in decades. Caught squarely in the middle of it is the only Annapolis graduate ever to reach the White House, Jimmy Carter, whose budget restrictions triggered the fight but who recently told a Navy audience: "I'm still one of you." And as a key House committee voted last week to support the Navy, one congressional aide predicted: "There will be blood all over before this...
Although the sit-in began four days ago, the demonstrators and staff members have not been able to reach an agreement in three days of negotiating. They decided to halt negotiations early yesterday, Julie Melrose, one of the demonstrators, said yesterday, but they will resume this afternoon...
...word more embarrassing even than "morality"... It has, nonetheless, a firm, hard-headed sense that names the single quality without which true art cannot exist... We read or listen to or look at works of art in the hope of experiencing our highest, most selfless emotion, either to reach a sublime communication with the maker of the work, sharing his affirmations as common lovers do, or to find, in works of literature, characters we love as we do real people...
...Dunn, coordinator for the Paulist Leadership and Renewal Project who also walked as a clown, said her costume was "a way of reaching people you ordinarily can't reach," including isolated elderly people who sit and watch walkers on Commonwealth Avenue...