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...Administration's economic program. The President was to have gone on the hustings this spring, in state legislatures and citizens' meetings, rounding up popular support for his proposed budget and tax cuts. His convalescence has scrubbed what would have been the campaign's canny opening salvo-Reagan appealing on network television for the tax cut, just as taxes came due. Said one political adviser: "There is no question we are handicapped with the President laid up." The most prominent surrogate campaigner available is Vice President George Bush, who substituted for Reagan in announcing a White House plan...
...They tried to make the father a college professor instead of a cantor." Doing right by the source may in fact have undone the remake, which seems like a slightly fragile pop legend propped up-and perhaps overwhelmed-by a Broadway-style score that sends up a great salvo in the opening notes and goes out with all guns blazing...
Brisk and impatient as always, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro arrived at Lisbon airport last week anxious to fly off to Oporto. There, with national elections scheduled for Sunday, he planned to deliver a final hortatory salvo to promote his presidential candidate-but no relation-General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered...
...mass Labor Party protest against the Thatcher government in Liverpool, where unemployment is running at 15.2%, almost twice the national average. In spite of his crutches, Foot is determined to join the demonstration march when it converges on the docks of Merseyside. Last week he delivered his first salvo against the Thatcher government: "We will proceed to unite to attack the outrages and infamies which this government is inflicting on our people...
MasterCard II is another salvo in the continuing battle between Interbank Card Association, whose 11,000 members are the financial institutions, primarily banks, that issue MasterCard, and rival Visa International, which has about 11,500 members. MasterCard (formerly Master Charge) and Visa are each carried by more than 60 million people in the U.S., but the tide of success is running with Visa. Five years ago, approximately 6 million more people carried Master Charge than Visa, then called BankAmericard. Through shrewd marketing, and a court ruling that allowed banks to issue both cards, Visa now leads...