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Gorbachev's popularity in the United States has gained so much that he could probably blow away the Democratic presidential field in any election or debate. But before Americans roll out the red carpet, they should snap out of the charismatic spell he has cast and look realisticly at a Soviet leader who is following the policies of his predecessors...
...from the defense budget in the current fiscal year, $8.2 billion more in 1989. Medicare, farm price supports and student loans would be trimmed by $4 billion this year and nearly $6 billion next year. But there was little in the way of specifics. The conferees did not spell out where the new tax burden was going to fall. Nor did they decide which nondefense discretionary programs were going to lose $6 billion over the next two years. Congressional leaders will have to deal with the devil in those details...
...quest for the fool's gold of material conquest; and an invented tale called The Baker and His Wife, about a couple who long to escape the curse of childlessness inflicted by the "witch next door." Inasmuch as the holy grails that will lift the witch's spell are Jack's beloved white cow, Little Red Ridinghood's crimson cape, Rapunzel's yellow hair and Cinderella's golden slipper, by the end of the first act the fairy-tale figures have bonded into a community and sing and dance about living happily ever after...
Katsias's kick save denied Brown forward Katherine Wilder with 34 minutes remaining. Several more brilliant saves by the Crimson goalkeeper and tough defense led by Tri-Captain Jane Grim kept Brown scoreless until Wiley broke Harvard's defensive spell at the 16:27 mark...
...Reagan Administration prudently held its fire as U.S. officials debated the options. Secretary of State George Shultz, on a swing through the Middle East before arriving in Moscow this week, refused to spell out what the response might be. But he advised reporters, "When we have decided to take action, and have taken it, you'll know what it is." Shultz said the missile assault was less of a challenge to U.S. power than it first seemed, since the Sea Isle City was in Kuwaiti waters and thus beyond the jurisdiction of the U.S. fleet when...