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...table the Reisman petition, as well as what appeared to be deferential treatment paid Harvard when the council passed the earlier, selective moratorium bill, Graham said after the meeting, "I guess some of the councilors have some special feeling of connection to Harvard, and don't want to restrict its building plans...
...want to restrict the hell out of it," she added...
...intention" of getting involved militarily in Africa and that he will not ask Congress to repeal the Clark amendment. But because of the "very tight constraints" on his conduct of foreign policy, he has ordered the State Department to make a study of the statutes that restrict his power. He has not decided on a plan of action, but he obviously wants greater flexibility to provide economic and military aid when he thinks the need is there...
...fleet smaller than this, according to some admirals, could mean a tacit wartime "abandonment" of some key allies, including Japan, Norway, Greece and Turkey. Declared Navy Secretary Claytor in a confidential memo to Defense Secretary Brown: A reduced fleet would "concede the Norwegian Sea 9 to the Soviets" and restrict us to "the defense of a sea lane from Norfolk to the English Channel." States Sea Plan 2000, an official Navy analysis of its needs at the end of the century: "Major reduction in carrier levels, the heart of U.S. naval capabilities, will reduce the ability of a President...
...size of the cut, the ruling consideration is how large a budget deficit the U.S. can tolerate. If the deficit is not reduced below $61 billion, Miller has warned, the Federal Reserve will restrict the money supply and raise interest rates as an alternative way of fighting inflation. The Fed already has moved twice in the past two weeks to tighten up; last week, in response, Chase Manhattan Bank raised its prime rate on business loans a quarter point, to 8¼%. Democratic Economist Otto Eckstein says that a $25 billion tax cut would be "guaranteed to fail...