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...phone conversation long-distance to Colorado was the best half-hour course on philosophy I've ever had. Amie is the nicest person west of the Mississippi, and he said cars are toys are not to come between friends. My parents reacted with admirable restraint. Dad said he hoped I felt like the dumb shit...
...John R. Roach of St. Paul and Minneapolis, president of the Bishops' Conference, the group has taken its stand and asked Washington to refrain from "massively increasing the destructive capability of the armed forces." The bishops have not addressed themselves to what the U.S. should do if such restraint should lead to a guerrilla victory, as the Administration fears would happen...
...allies applaud a policy of restraint. Said West German Minister of Economics Count Otto Lambsdorff in New York last week: "I feel it has been a wise and helpful decision not to officially declare a Polish default...
Actually, it will take a series of miracles to keep the deficits out of the twelve-digit range, which the budget document concedes "would impose extreme pressures on financial markets-[and] undermine the outlook for continued monetary restraint, reduced inflation and economic growth." To begin with, the estimate that the fiscal 1982 figure will stay a hair below $100 billion depends on the highly dubious assumption that Congress will enact further cuts in such programs as food stamps, welfare, Medicare and Medicaid to take effect in the remaining eight months of the year. The $91.5 billion projection for fiscal...
...head of a diminishing band of believers in the battered supply-side theory, which has produced a mix of budget cutting, reduced taxes, increased defense spending and-the sum of it all-huge, debilitating deficits. Rising Republican sentiment on the Hill is to increase tax revenues while continuing budget restraint and somehow reducing defense spending. Kansas' Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, toured boardrooms, banks and the markets and came back to Washington bearing the same message from Reagan boosters in the world of finance: Hundreds of billions in new debt could cause panic. Democrats, confused...