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...sewing hints, men exchange investment tips and talk soccer. Everybody gossips. Weightier topics are also touched on: AIDS, the Persian Gulf war, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager. "So drinking at the reunion is highly frowned upon...
...thus the congressional system seems stacked against fiscal prudence, against putting the national interest over special interests. There are votes to be had for talking about spending restraint, but not for exercising it; each member, in the end, feels judged by what projects he can bring home to his district, by what pet programs he can protect for his constituency groups...
...happen? Fiscal restraint was already slipping when President Reagan took office. The fiscal-1980 budget gap was $73.8 billion, compared with a deficit of just $2.8 billion ten years earlier. Yet the real ballooning of the deficit to dangerous levels ($220.7 billion by fiscal 1986) was triggered during the early Reagan years, when the Administration tried to cut taxes and boost defense spending at the same time. According to Reagan's true believers, the deficits were supposed to shrink as a result of the tax cut. By stimulating the economy's so-called supply side, the cuts were expected...
Many of the information policies surveyed in this report are undoubtably based on sound management considerations involving fiscal restraint or national security. The cumulative effect of these policy changes, however, is likely to limit the flow of information in our society. The report concludes that in some areas federal information policies have limited public access to the results of publicly funded academic research and other information-gathering activites. In other areas such policies have deprived government officials of the information necessary for making informed decisions about how to carry out their functions and duties. In still other areas policy changes...
Shilts, who is openly gay, is equally tough on the gay community, which, he says, transformed its civil rights movement in the '70s into "omnipresent carnality." In the face of rampant disease, he says, gay leaders resisted calling for sexual restraint, fearing that it would threaten their hard-won liberation. He adds that the owners of gay "back room" bars and bathhouses were prominent contributors to gay political groups and major advertisers in gay newspapers, and thus unduly influenced the debate. In one grim scene, a bathhouse owner tells a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, "We're both...