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Grace De Fries eked out a victory in the 800 for the only other Crimson ribbon-breaking performance, but Maria Acacia heaved the shot put for enough to earn second place...
During the ceremony-which includes the traditional ribbon-cutting-Weinman refused to specify the amount of his donation, but he said he gave the money in memory of his late son, Irving Weinman '46, because "he spent a lot of time here as business manager and worked hard to make the station a success...
Baker led the White House team as the blue-ribbon commission on Social Security struggled to reach a compromise before its charter ran out. He argued inside the White House that failure to preserve the solvency of the Social Security system "not only had the potential of destroying this Administration, but the entire party." Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, a member of the commission, praised Baker as "a superb staff man." Says an aide to Republican Senate leaders admiringly: "Baker is a master poker player. He never shows his cards-and he wins...
Last week many of the questions and most of the doubts were removed. After six months of deliberation, a blue-ribbon British inquiry into the causes of the war specifically exonerated Thatcher and her government from any blame for failing to foresee or prevent the Argentine invasion. Stressed the six-man bipartisan panel headed by Lord Franks, 77, an Oxford academic and former British Ambassador to Washington. "Our account demonstrates conclusively that the government had no reason to believe before March 31 that an invasion of the Falkland Islands would take place at the beginning of April...
...dustup over weapons policy came just as Reagan was trying to dispel a similar impression of disarray on important domestic issues. He spent much of the week grappling with ways to reduce the deficit-swollen federal budget and nudging a blue-ribbon commission toward a compromise on the politically explosive question of restoring the solvency of the Social Security system (see following stories). The air of uncertainty in the capital was heightened by the resignation of Richard Schweiker as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and by word that Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader and Reagan...