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...expects to keep only one of these two plants open. Says Fort Wayne Mayor Winfield Moses Jr.: "It's a boom or crash situation. If we lose, our unemployment goes from 12% recession to 21% depression. If we win, our unemployment goes down to 7%." The total job swing for the city is 17,000 positions...
...swing voters in that coalition were blue-collar workers who strayed from the Democratic fold. To them, economic recovery, by whatever means, is far more important than keeping the ideological faith. "If this deficit keeps ballooning," says a presidential adviser, "the political losses we will suffer will make the political losses from raising taxes look like nothing." In order to fend off wholesale electoral trouble, Reagan will keep pushing for new taxes in an effort to reduce deficits and steady the economy. He will have to endure right-wing carping, but political logic is with him. Says a White House...
...undergraduate organization, Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Social Responsibility (HRSSR) will be continuing its Swing District Project in the fall. The project, which involves many of HRSSR's 300 members is an attempt to educate voters in 27 selected congressional districts to how they can express their opinion on the nuclear arms issue...
...with a financial solution. If the Soviets, or the U.S. Government on their behalf, agree to pay the $75,000 or so in property taxes that would normally be owed to the Glen Cove treasury from the estate, would the diplomats be set free to swim and swing their racquets and clubs...
Habib presented the outline of the proposal to Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis and Prime Minister Chafik Wazzan after the U.S. envoy had returned from his swing through the Middle East. A P.L.O. evacuation plan had been drawn up early last week by Colonel Johnny Abdo, head of Lebanese army intelligence, and Hani al Hassan, Arafat's political adviser. The P.L.O. was pleased with the Habib proposals, even though the Palestinians had to forgo the staged withdrawal they preferred by way of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and thence to Syria...