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...however, the President is about to propose some far more important steps that he long resisted, notably a hold-down in military spending and some kind of stand-by plan to raise taxes if necessary to shrink gargantuan deficits. Nonetheless, these measures amount to much less than a wholesale retreat from Reaganomics. The President, indeed, sees himself quite accurately as making the minimal concessions necessary to keep a rebellious Congress from attacking the core of his program, chiefly the income tax cuts, the social spending rollback and the big military buildup. For that matter, the change in tone is also...
...Whitewash!" were heard when Prime Minister Thatcher read the Franks report's exculpation of her government. Said she: "We now have no option but Fortress Falklands." Former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that Thatcher had bought "a short-term military victory and a long-term political retreat and dead end." The report, he later insisted, let the Prime Minister off "too lightly...
...Washington Post's top political reporter, David S. Broder: "Not the midpoint in the Reagan presidency but its phaseout. . . an accelerating retreat from Reaganism, a process in which he is more spectator than leader...
...Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, who would feel libeled if called a liberal: "The White House is in full retreat-and if the President does not step out into the middle of the road and fire a pistol into the air, it will degenerate into a rout. Upon that assessment, those rejoicing at the spectacle and those sick at heart over it are in concurrence." Buchanan is among the sick at heart...
Meanwhile, in the desert near Palm Springs, Calif., at the edge of the San Jacinto Mountains, where Hubbard once stalked the sands wearing a cowboy hat, cursing and yelling as he directed Scientology films, security is tight. Guards at the Gilman retreat scrutinize cars moving along a highway past a black iron gate, and security men range amid the cactus, chattering into walkie-talkies. There is a sign that says GOLDEN ERA STUDIOS. The only visible reminder of the former presence is a bronze plaque on a replica of a ship's deck. It is dedicated...