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...part of Reagan's human nature to like people. At one point during the Geneva summit, Reagan came out of a good private session with Gorbachev and told a close aide, "Sometimes I've got to remind myself just who he is and what he represents." Despite the amiability that came through in public, Reagan seems to have succeeded in that also...
After an unforgettable pasting from Ronald Reagan in 1984, the Democratic National Committee launched a survey called "Democrats Listening to America" to find out what the voters wanted. One answer came as a rude surprise. "Fairness," a favorite party theme in the 1982 and 1984 elections, was a turnoff to most of the 5,500 voters polled, 90% of whom identified themselves as middle class. "They see it as a code word meaning giveaway," said Frank O'Brien, a fund raiser for the D.N.C. "To them, fairness means not me but some other...
...Pakistani capital of Islamabad, evidence emerges that a large portion of the U.S. military aid--some claim as much as 50%--never reaches the mujahedin. Because of the secrecy that surrounds the pipeline (Pakistan denies that it exists), the figure is difficult to confirm. In Washington, Reagan Administration officials and members of Congress concede that shipments to Afghanistan are being skimmed, but there is sharp disagreement over how significant the losses...
...coming back for more punishment. Just when the idea has been battered to the canvas, it struggles to its feet again. Last week reform went another round, this time energized by a fresh proposal from the House Ways and Means Committee. Some of the populist ideals found in the Reagan Administration's two earlier proposals remain alive in this one. The bill would cut tax rates, close loopholes, give relief to millions of working poor people and make corporations carry a greater share of the load. Many business leaders, though, claimed that the bill would single them out for unfair...
...reform effort began a year ago, when the Reagan Administration launched a bold plan, dubbed Treasury I, to overhaul the absurdly complicated and loophole-ridden income tax law. The President put his name behind another, more modest plan known as Treasury II last May and promoted it with whistle-stop tours around the U.S. But the tax-reform movement slowed to a crawl until a month ago, when Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, the Ways and Means chairman, started engineering the new proposal. "We have done," he boasts, "what many people thought couldn't be done...