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...similar success in another obscure corner of Asia: the interior of Irian Jaya (formerly Dutch New Guinea and now part of Indonesia). Dillinger, 51, and wife Lorraine, 48, work among Dani tribesmen cut off from the outside world by crocodile-infested, malarial lowlands and mountain ranges that soar to 13,000 ft. It is against Indonesian law to convert any person who already has a religion, and 88% of the country is Muslim. But the government does allow Christian missionary work, Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long as it is only aimed...
...camps, "I was savage in an inferno where Eichmann's reality eclipsed Dante's vision of hell. I reacted with the nervous system in a frenzy to hang on. Harvard marked a redemption. Here the mind began to soar and the struggle for moral and intellectual survival began. It was a struggle that begin in Australia at the age of 18, after I hadn't been in a classroom for six years...
...BUDDY EV'S UNCLE BREWSTER is going to soar in the Space Shuttle less than a year from...
That issue, without question, is the ocean of red ink. The Office of Management and Budget has compiled figures indicating that without further cuts in spending or increases in taxes, the deficit might soar to $175 billion in fiscal 1984 and $220 billion in fiscal 1989. Deficits of anything close to that scale would force enough Government borrowing to kick up interest rates again, cutting short a recovery or preventing it from ever getting started, unless the Federal Reserve poured out enough new money to risk firing up inflation once more...
...payment from tax evaders, mainly by withholding taxes on their interest and stock dividends. It was true, as he said in Montana, that "the tax bill . . . will not raise income taxes on the average American." If the bill does not pass, Reagan warned the balky Congressmen, the deficit would soar, and interest rates might reach "16% in November"-when all House members face reelection. That might be rough for them, but it would be "disastrous" for the economy, Reagan said. "He's a very persuasive man," observed Delaware Republican Thomas Evans after the meeting. "I could see some...