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...spending cuts and then concentrate on cutting taxes by less than Reagan proposes. Says he: "The combination of these two will have to result in a deficit projection no larger than Reagan's." While the Democrats will try to narrow social-spending cuts just enough to soften the wrath of their constituents among the disadvantaged, they will give the President enough to escape public censure for blocking his program. Then if the program fails to spur economic growth and slow inflation, they will put the blame squarely on Reagan. With opponents no more combative than that, White House worries...
...stage. Moliere, bristling with artistic integrity, refused to change a single alexandrine. The play remained locked away. After five years, the playwright had added a few more lines flattering King Louis XIV, although he resisted substantial changes in the nature of the farce. He refused many more times to soften the sting of his wit, which he directed at the church, the aristocracy, the literary establishment--or anyone within reach...
Nonetheless, Detroit hopes that the rebate plans will kick off a spring sales surge and help soften consumer resistance to the high prices on 1981 model cars. A recent survey of car sales in southern Ohio by Chevrolet Dealer Ebb Glockner concluded that buyers were balking at paying more than...
...terrorism rather loosely to include Soviet support of "national liberation movements" and propaganda advocating "armed struggle," as hi El Salvador and Namibia. All of this can be broadly defined as terrorism, Dyess claimed, be cause it "creates a climate in which terrorism flourishes." Despite Dyess's attempt to soften Haig's accusation, it set off a sharp debate. Said Georgetown University Professor Walter Laqueur, an expert on terrorism: "I sympathize with Haig's sentiments, but I regret the lack of precision in his words. It is very difficult to know what he means...
...Elizabeth Ann Swift, the ranking Foreign Service officer in the embassy during the takeover, and Kathryn Koob, director of the Iran-American Society.) The explanation he gave, that blacks suffer in the U.S. and that Islam does not make war on women, suggested that the release was intended to soften world opinion, not mollify "America, the mother of corruption." A short time later Khomeini was dropping hints that the hostages would indeed be tried (and "executed by firing squad," Deputy Chief Islamic Prosecutor Hassan Ghaffarpour added). Khomeini went on to say that the U.S. President "knows that he is beating...