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Whether the legislators go after sin or something else, the proposed budget faces rough slogging at the White House. Says Administration Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "We do not agree that ((new)) taxes are necessary. Period...
When the next round of underground primary ratings emerges through rough consensus, three of the competitors will probably do well for different reasons. Gephardt has plowed Iowa more vigorously than a platoon of farmers and managed to identify himself with an issue -- protectionist measures to cut the trade deficit -- that appeals to labor activists. Even those who disagree with Gephardt's approach concede that he has exploited it shrewdly. Given the fractured nature of the Hart-less field, the support of labor could boost Gephardt to top-tier status, though it may hamper the recent headway he has been making...
...died there . . . I should have had a soldier's burial and praise." Instead, the madness acquired 14 years earlier has been carried home, slowly eroding his marriage, his job and his life. A soldier is most vulnerable when he feels safest, he drunkenly repeats, and in the rough country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where people have "no possibilities, no place to go," Chris comes to believe he has stumbled onto enemy ground. He turns his property into a deadly perimeter, rigging it like a minefield for a final conflagration that will burn away his nightmares. In his fourth book...
...medium is the message as the cornered politician endures the prescribed sequence of televised statements, beginning with a tight-lipped acknowledgment of errors in judgment and ending with defiant surrender. So the political process is purified yet again, another heretic is hounded from public life. Some may see a rough frontier justice in the speedy verdict. But others may notice that a less than ennobling odor surrounded the entire affair, and wonder what it is about modern democracy that seems to require living victims...
Meese, who will not be called until Phase 2, can expect rough handling over his sloppy initial investigation as well as his dubious legal advice to the President that it was proper to withhold notification of the Iran deals from Congress. But as to whether there was a cover-up, Maine Republican Senator William Cohen notes, "You cannot prove that Meese's ineptitude was calculated...