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...uncontrolled costs of new weapons swell defense figures...
Farmers are among the loudest skeptics. They fear that Reagan will go further and impose a new embargo on grain shipments, which would swell the U.S. agricultural surplus and depress farm prices and incomes. Their concern stems from their bitter experience with the embargo that President Carter declared two years ago after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Says Jared Hoover, who farms 1,400 acres outside Abilene, Kans.: "I can understand suspending talks on a new agreement with Moscow. But we should have enough history under our belts to teach us a lesson. Despite Carter's embargo, the Russians...
...President last week approved cuts of $31 billion in the federal spending proposals he will present to Congress next month. The cuts would mainly affect social programs-Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, subsidized housing, urban renewal grants-that have already been slashed. Even so, the projected deficit would swell to well over $100 billion unless Reagan also agrees to some so-called revenue enhancements, and he has indicated that he might. In a year-end interview with reporters that was released last week, Reagan repeated his general opposition to tax boosts, but hinted that he could make an exception...
...Poland's three-week-old martial law regime ended at the Piast mine in Silesia last week when 1,100 weary and hungry workers decided to give up their demonstration after occupying their mineshaft for 14 days. But across Poland, a wave of passive resistance was beginning to swell. In Szczecin, dockworkers were reported to be loading and unloading the same goods over and over again; at the Zeran auto plant in Warsaw, workers were said to be making parts that would not fit together...
...society is to teach the children to love the beautiful things in the old country, and not to frighten them. "You don't want to start striking out right and left." She waves right and left with her arms; her English rolls in a heavy swell. "You want to make distinctions. A good Jew from a bad Jew. A good Arab from a bad. Also you want to show that life is not all hardship. There is joy here...