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...spending and reduction of the tax cuts, while some liberals criticized curbing the increase in Social Security benefits. But a surprising number of Republicans noted that the proposal was at least a starting point. "The appeal of the plan is that everybody is asked to sacrifice," said Republican Senator Slade Gorton of Washington. "No one escapes...
...that the Pope would have voted for AWACS. Said Durenberger: "Lyndon Johnson would have talked to me about an airbase in Duluth." Reagan was "soft but firm," said Democrat Wendell Ford of Kentucky, and exuded such sincerity that "I'd hate to play poker against him." Washington Republican Slade Gorton recalled that when Reagan called to offer condolences on the death of his mother, "I kept expecting the other shoe to drop, and the conversation to turn to AWACS. But it never did. The President spent the whole 20 minutes talking about mothers...
After two opponents of the sale, Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota and Slade Gorton of Washington, rose to argue, Reagan jutted his jaw and retorted: "You're going to cut me off at the knees. I won't be effective in conducting foreign policy." Gorton objected to the President's implication, at his press conference two weeks ago, that opponents of the sale were under the influence of Israel. Said he: "Prime Minister [Menachem] Begin doesn't control my vote." Shot back Reagan: "You may not think Israel is controlling your vote, but the world will." When...
...third and best novel, Robert F. Jones tracks the elemental grandeur of Alaska from feral Eden to pipeline ruination. In 1950 Bush-Pilot Buddies Jack Slade and Sam Healey are forced to land their aging C-47 in the icy outback. Charlie Blue, a Tlingit Indian shaman, appears and assists them through a surpassingly beautiful valley to rescue. The pilots promise to return, but before they can, Healey leaves Slade holding a smoking pistol and a murder rap in the wake of a saloon brawl. End of partnership. Slade settles down to homestead the secret valley. Thirty years later Healey...
Jones' cast are rawboned archetypes. Debts to Hemingway and Jack London are duly paid. But a peculiar vein of mysticism transforms the tale. Exerting his territorial imperative, for instance, Slade is aided by a transubstantial raven, a platoon of aged Japanese marines (survivors of a 1940s infiltration of the Aleutian Islands), and the icebound corpses of prehistoric mammoths. But the grand gesture proves as impermanent...