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...back from the Easter recess," Reagan said last week, adding that he would not object to a "summit" with Democratic leaders. The Speaker will go along with the budget compromise, his aides say, as long as Reagan takes the lead: "Only the President can persuade the American people to swallow the medicine...
...significance in studying a much more homogeneous society. For such an astoundingly diverse place as contemporary America--where the distinctions between society's winners and losers, not to mention regional differences in climate, history and social structure are immense--the very idea of a "typical" town is hard to swallow...
...that Reagan's 1983 budget would be passed intact was lost at midweek when Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, one of the Administration's key budget operatives in Congress, declared his opposition. Said Domenici: "Political leaders do all a disservice by pretending that we can swallow $100 billion-plus deficits as though they were aspirin tablets." Offering his own remedy for the deficit headache, he proposed trimming defense spending by limiting its growth to 5% after inflation, thereby saving $20 to $25 billion over the next three years. His plan also called for freezing the costs...
Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a "propaganda" state like all the rest--distinguishable only by its more effective and seductive salesmanship--is particularly hard to swallow. For every Sidney Hook who dismissed the havoc of Vietnam as "an unfortunate accidental loss of life" and "the unintended consequence of military action," there was a Noam Chomsky, willing--and able--to stand up and decry the madness. Maybe the reaction came to little too late, but Americans eventually rebelled against their own government's policy and, through their action, ended a nightmare...
KING'S INSISTENCE on the following the most optimistic projections, for both Reagan's programs and his own, has already made Massachusetts suffer. He has said "we can swallow" the chronic deficits in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority budget. Yet subway fares have tripled in the past four years. He notes proudly a fall in welfare caseloads. But the success of this crusade has resulted not from a healthier economy, but from sticter requirements for qualification...