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This intense focus on defense, to the near exclusion of the other items in the budget, is somewhat astonishing. Reagan called his nonmilitary cutbacks "the most exhaustive effort ever made to rein in Government's chronic overspending," and in any other year they would have raised a quadraphonic howl of protest. The President proposes to freeze spending on a number of programs, prominently including pensions for retired civilian and military employees (other than those on Social Security) and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Nearly a score of other programs would be "reformed"--that is, cut deeply. Among them: farm...
...Vatican last year, John Paul installed two other key hard-liners. Jean Jerome Hamer, 68, a Belgian, was dubbed "the Hammer" during his years as No. 2 man at the doctrinal congregation. He was John Paul's choice to replace the indulgent Eduardo Cardinal Pironio and keep a tight rein on the congregation that supervises religious orders. Hamer, now enmeshed in the crucial test of wills with U.S. nuns over the abortion issue, is deemed by some leading sisters to be uncommunicative and insensitive toward women. Augustin Mayer, 73, a German workaholic, was for years the top aide to Pironio...
...most, and his second Inaugural, a four-day wingding that begins this Friday, will be quieter, more controlled and a good deal less ostentatious than his first. The Inaugural, America's 50th, is being carefully crafted by the soon-to-depart Michael Deaver and the Presidential Inaugural Committee to rein in spending and promote a new egalitarian image for the Administration. Its theme: "We the People . . . An American Celebration...
...THOUGHTFUT and farsighted voter, nothing could have been more chilling than the prospect of Ronald Reagan casting the next Supreme Court. Somehow though, this far-reaching concern got lost amidst competing claims about who could best tame the deficit or who would rein in the runaway arms race. Sure, the President mumbled something about how well he did with Sandra Day O'Connor and Mondale occasionally warned against the perils of Reagan court, but next to the obvious and immediate issues of budgets and bombs the Court received watcher put it. "For one of the most profound issues...
Reagan's aides are divided into two camps. The True Believers-White House Counsellor Ed Meese, Interior Secretary and former National Security Adviser William Clark, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger-want to continue pressing a hard line against Communism and giving free rein to supply-side economics. The Pragmatists-White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, Presidential Aide Richard Darman, Budget Director David Stockman and Secretary of State George Shultz-see the top priorities as reducing the deficit and reaching an arms-control accord with the Soviets...