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First, to cast psychoanalysis as the soldier of science in the battle between mysticism and rationalism seems to handicap the side of reason. While analysis is currently in retreat from more purely scientific methods of treating mental disorders, notably psychopharmacology, religion remains the purest form of faith. The combatants in this battle begin on inherently unequal terms, then, because Catholicism has every right to carry the standard of mysticism, while psychoanalysis can make at best a feeble claim to the banner of nationalism...
...genuinely accept peace with Israel? That was a key question for the Foreign Minister of a country in which Jews mingled with Arabs, and which yet needed a visitor from 6,000 miles away to explain the psychology of Arab nations. Was Israel gaining acceptance by its retreat, or starting a process of weakening itself? Israel had no choice; it could not risk not making the experiment, for the Jewish state would consume its moral substance if it sought to rest its existence on naked force...
While the President said he had given the Republican leadership some "running room" to bargain on the Hill, the maneuvering space was narrow indeed. One senior Administration official explained that it is "too early" for any Reagan retreat from his budget since that would make him "look weaker than Jimmy Carter." The implication was that the President might compromise later. If not, Ronald Reagan could wind up risking the judgment that he places his personal determination to be consistent above the economic well-being of the nation. -By EdMagnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Douglas Brew with Reagan
...economists were disappointed, and even a little shocked, by the President's "no retreat" budget message. They particularly questioned his refusal to recommend significant tax increases or to pare, even slightly, spending for Social Security and defense, the two largest budget programs. Taken at face value, Reagan's deficit projections are alarming enough: $91.5 billion in 1983, narrowing to $71.9 billion by 1985. Those figures assume, however, that economic growth will rebound vigorously this summer and that Congress in an election year will make further cutbacks in social programs like food stamps. Both assumptions, TIME's economists...
...city politics it is rare that he who receives has not already pledged something in return. The question in Vellucci's case is simply how far he will go toward repaying the Independents, whose support made him mayor for the third time. There is little worry that Vellucci will retreat from his vocal support of rent control. But he could conceivably back Independent-sponsored resolutions that would handicap the rent control board in administering the city's restraints over landlords. And more important, Vellucci could support a weakening of the anti-condominium ordinances, which protect rent-controlled apartments from open...