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...issued a one-paragraph statement, including the assurance that "all indications are that when the lab results are in they will confirm the President to be in excellent health." Next day the results were released: all the growths were found to be benign. That came as no surprise to Reagan. When he departed from the hospital the day before, he said he felt "just fine" and flashed the thumbs-up sign as he and Nancy boarded a helicopter and headed off to Camp David for the three-day weekend. MONEY Counterfeiting Made Easy...
...development. Seven people were injured and 81 arrested when 1,500 leftist demonstrators hurled rocks and eggs, smashed windows and set fires to protest what one group called "our dependence on North American imperialism." The continent's debt was also on the agenda last week in Washington, where Ronald Reagan praised visiting Ecuadoran President León Febres Cordero for his handling of the problem, calling him "an articulate champion of free enterprise...
...Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Two Libyan MiG-25 fighters intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane to the north of the Gulf of Sidra, then darted back to Libyan airspace before F/ A-18 jets from the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea could reach the scene. While Gaddafi condemned Ronald Reagan as a "Hitler No. 2, " the Pentagon expressed concern about increasingly overt intelligence-gathering activities in the area by Soviet ships and aircraft. The crisis, meanwhile, gave TIME Correspondent John Borrell a chance to observe at close range a country that, though oil rich, is devoting far more...
Under the tolerant gaze of the Reagan Administration, giant U.S. companies have been merging at an unprecedented rate. Now the White House wants to make it still easier for firms to consolidate. Officials last week unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul antitrust laws that have held sway since the early part of the 20th century. "The Reagan crew is obviously determined to leave its mark on business policy," said James Maher, managing director of mergers and acquisitions at the First Boston investment-banking firm. "These ideas, if enacted, will fuel more fires in merger activity...
...hyperbole would increase before Mailer publicly apologized for his unilateral action and Doctorow (without accepting the apology) wryly suggested that Mailer was practicing "constructive engagement of the Reagan Administration." Shultz's arrival at the opening ceremony at the main branch of the New York Public Library was greeted by an army of the night, brandishing a protest signed by 65 of the nearly 800 writers attending the congress. Amid cries of "Read the petition!" the Secretary expressed unexceptionably liberal sentiments favoring diversity and debate and condemning censorship. Shultz added to his speech by declaring in a rather general...