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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether the Reagan proposal can be the basis of serious negotiation depends largely on three factors: 1) whether the Soviet leadership, in the midst of its transition to the post-Brezhnev era, can absorb what may initially come as a shock, then respond with a constructive counterproposal; 2) whether the Reagan Administration is prepared to make substantial compromises in the negotiations for an eventual agreement; and 3) whether the Congress will continue to support the Administration's extremely expensive defense plans, which constitute the "or-else" inducement for the Soviets to bargain...
...coupled with a similar delay in granting the 1983 COLA benefits. Reagan's senatorial friend Paul Laxalt argued for the compromise, but the President demurred. Reagan, however, did agree to consider the twin delays as part of a compromise package. Now it was the Democrats' turn to respond. O'Neill leaned toward Boiling and asked, "Dick?" Replied Boiling: "We just can't take that." By Boiling's count, Reagan was offering to trade a $7 billion budget savings in delaying the tax cut for a $16.6 billion savings in COLA. That, O'Neill said...
...residents throughout Los Angeles' fourth county district only days before the April 1980 election Burke's opponent for the position of L.A. county supervisor had spent $100,000 having the xeroxed photograph distributed and labeled the picture with the blunt question. "Would you vote for this person." Unable to respond to the blatantly racist ploy, Burke lost the race and withdrew from elective politics at together...
...president J. French Wall '83 said yesterday in reaction to Pattullo's comments. "Gay rights are anything but secure here." Wall called on Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty to respond to Pattullo's statement "negative social pressures may keep some who have a choice from adopting the homosexual life...
...addition, Engelmayer claims GSA sought to "silence [its] critics" and "corner the market of ideas." Perhaps Mr. Engelmayer has not carefully read the GSA petition--its first request is that Pattullo clarify his position, an invitation for further dialogue that Pattullo has not responded to. Nowhere does the petition call for silence. As for Engelmayer's suggestion that the appropriate respond to the Pattullo letter would be for Dean Rosovsky to affirm the Faculty's commitment to diversity--well, this suggestion would seem more aptly directed to the Dean himself...