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Interior bureaucrats also expect the glare of public attention on the department to soften under Clark. Watt's public remarks got in the way of gaining broad support for his policies. As one department official puts it: "He's a great fella, but why did he have to shoot his mouth off like that?" Though Clark may be far less vocal, Interior aides expect him to be an aggressive boss, despite his inexperience with environmental issues. On the other hand, no radical shifts in policy are expected. Says one department veteran: "Reagan and Watt didn't have...
...this proposition that indulgence will soften the hard line of Marxists is dubious in the extreme. While it has been convenient for Castro to blame his problems on a hostile "Tio Sam, "the few occasions on which the U.S. has hinted at a milder, more accommodating approach seem to have convinced him that he had won and that he could go his own way with impunity. And Castro's way, if he gets it in the long run, raises another question that the liberals tend to duck: What happens if the momentum of change in Latin America confronts...
Without his forbidding dark glasses, speaking calmly, General Wojciech Jaruzelski seemed eager to soften his stony image as he began addressing the Sejm, Poland's rubber-stamp parliament. "The introduction of martial law was not a universal medicine for our illnesses," he declared. "It was an act of defense, a necessity." The general then made a long-anticipated announcement: after 19 months, martial law would be lifted the next day, Poland's National Day. But Jaruzelski also issued a stern warning: "Any attempts at antistate activity will be curbed no less aggressively than during martial...
...eight stylishly dressed jurists huddled around a stark, white, rectangular table were sifting through endless snippets of yarn and swatch upon swatch of silk, rayon and linen. "We need to soften the yellow to almost a blond yellow," one mulled aloud, squinting at several fabric squares. A green swatch was rejected by one woman with a disapproving, "That's too much of a bathroom tile shade." Another tan square drew the comment, "Good. It doesn't have any shine, like a brown paper bag." It seemed for a time that no decisions would be reached, but after...
Last week the court appeared to soften its traditional stance by upholding a Minnesota statute that allows parents to take tax deductions for education costs at a church-affiliated private school. The action gave new heart to the Reagan Administration. Said U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee: "It's an important new beachhead." The Minnesota statute authorizes deductions of $500 to $700 spent by parents on "tuition, textbooks and transportation" for any child in grade or high school. By a 5-to-4 vote, the court found Minnesota's plan crucially different from other tax programs that had been...