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...Soviet military threat to the Persian Gulf area. Drawn from old Egyptian stockpiles (and, ironically, manufactured by the Soviets), the weapons are shipped to Pakistan by air and sea, then trucked to the Afghanistan border. U.S. officials said that the Pakistanis have been under pressure from Moscow to stanch the arms flow, but continue to look the other way in return for a six-year, $3.2 billion aid package from Washington...
...White House, which had reacted slowly at first, moved to stanch the political damage. With EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch facing a contempt-of-Congress citation, the Administration acquiesced to a plan to give a subcommittee of the House Public Works Committee full access to toxic-waste-enforcement files that Gorsuch had refused to yield. The subcommittee agreed to follow certain safeguards when reviewing the documents so that sensitive material will not leak out. The White House had claimed that the documents subpoenaed by Congress were protected by Executive privilege, but was prodded into a "compromise" by mounting public pressure...
...second putative savior: Grant Tinker, former president of the MTM production shop (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues). Tinker had made his reputation at MTM as THE the velvet-gloved champion of creative personnel, but at NBC he was unable to stanch defections by Newsman David Brinkley (to ABC) and Sports Chief Don Ohlmeyer (to independent production). He did woo many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though...
...maintain a record of a prospective employee's identification documents. Also, employers would be subject to fines only if it could be demonstrated that they knowingly hired an undocumented person. The prohibition that people who enter this nation illegally shall not be hired is the only way to stanch the flow...
Public support for President Reagan, which tailed off dramatically earlier this year, has rebounded slightly over the past three months. He has managed to stanch the loss of confidence in his ability to provide leadership, manage the economy and conduct foreign affairs since early spring, when a clear majority of Americans said they hoped Reagan would not seek a second term in office. Now as many people hope Reagan will run again as hope he will leave office...