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...President's plea that the nation "stay on course." Asked Riegle: "If you live from paycheck to paycheck, do you feel more secure about your job? If you own a small business, are you feeling more secure? What kind of course is this?" However, like other Democratic spokesmen in recent months, Riegle was hampered by his party's inability to produce any coherent and convincing alternative to Reagan's austere policies...
...reports from home were decidedly unfavourable. As Andrew and Koo gamboled about Mustique, a tiny island paradise belonging to the Princess Margaret (herself the focus of considerable scandal over the years). Buckingham Palace was keeping busy fielding questions and making surprisingly forthright statements. At first, palace spokesmen claimed that the Queen was upset with her son only because he had "sneaked off" without telling after she left for Australia. But the palace was more explicitly outraged later in the week. All I can say is that the queen is furious at his indiscretion and his lack of honesty in explaining...
Markey's remarks came at the concluson of the two-day non-partisan conference which attracted students from 70 New England colleges. The congressman was one of the series of speakers, including Reagan Administration spokesmen and pro-freeze leaders, to address the conference...
...with the new Chancellor after he returned from France for what was described by a union aide as an afternoon of "economic swordplay." Ernst Breit, leader of the country's 8 million-member German Trade Union Confederation termed the wage-freeze idea "totally unnegotiable." Even among pro-business spokesmen, who generally support Kohl, the wage-freeze idea was greeted with trepidation. Rolf Rodenstock, president of the Cologne-based Federation of German Industry, feared the plan would undermine public confidence. Said he: "I believe it is not a pillar of wisdom...
...American military presence there. The Soviets also note that they have refrained from giving full support to Central American liberation movements and from directly invading Poland. "Their policy is still oriented toward a relationship with America," Bialer feels. A senior Western diplomat in Moscow agrees: "Some Soviet spokesmen have portrayed the relationship as hopeless, but that is not their real thinking...