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...central figures in that untidy scenario were Washington's two prideful old Irishmen, Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, and their failure to agree abruptly ended efforts to find a bipartisan alternative to the President's deficit-laden budget for fiscal 1983. The collapse of the talks raised questions for which no one last week had any ready answers...
...federal education budget. If he seriously was looking, as he insists in the report, to channel national dollars to those most likely to finish their college educations (a still-controversial but at least reasonable idea). Bok should not have been so imprecise--and consequently self-defeating--in his scenario-making. If he was conniving to hoard all the bucks for this University, then he was foolish to do so in such a crassly indirect--but suspect--manner...
...note about windswept nuclear fallout. In Belle Glade, Fla. (pop. 18,000), as in many communities, local churches sponsored a showing of The Last Epidemic, a film distributed by Physicians for Social Responsibility about nuclear war's medical horrors. Doctors from several hospitals described the same bleak scenario at a rally in Philadelphia...
...This scenario is shrewdly amplified by an expert in the art of ransacking history for thrills. British Novelist Ken Follett, 32, rewrote World War II in The Eye of the Needle and reinterpreted Middle East tensions in Triple. In The Man from St. Petersburg, he recalls Russia and England during the days just before the Great War. As always, his plot is eerily plausible...
...Guatemala. So, the Guatemalans will receive $4 million in spite parts for the American made helicopters they are using against the leftist rebels. In addition, Washington wants to give Rios Montt $50,000 in military training funds for fiscal year 1982 and another $250,000 for 1983. If this scenario does not sound familiar, just replace Guatemala with the words "El Salvador...