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...whirlwind of high-pressure politics, Ronald Reagan was waging the most perilous and difficult fight of his presidency. The stakes were high. If he failed to persuade Congress to pass a deficit-checking $99 billion three-year tax hike, the already swollen tide of red ink in the federal budget would rise even higher, swamping hopes for economic recovery and threatening deeper recession. Politically, a President who seemed to have a magic wand for passing major legislation would have shown that he could no longer control even his own party on Capitol Hill. The myth of the Great Communicator...
...year-old girl named Waffa was asleep when her home fell on top of her. She is asleep now too. Her head is shaved where they operated. Her left ear is blackened, her left eye swollen red. Below it, her cheek is sheathed in a purple-gray plaster. Her brain is damaged. She will be partly paralyzed for life. Beside her bed sits her older sister, who cannot bear to look. She stares instead at the open window...
...these talks is that we are now finally talking." With that opening exchange last week at Villa Rose, Moscow's diplomatic mission in Geneva, the two negotiators ended a hiatus of three years and resumed an esoteric, tedious and secrecy-shrouded but vital business: trying to reduce the swollen Soviet and U.S. inventories of the most powerful weapons on earth...
...College-sponsored survey uncovered this year showed Kirkland House swollen with varsity athletes, and with fewer top-notch students than any House in the school. At first glance one would not expect Klingensmith--tweedy, bespectacled, soft-spoken--to fit in. But he insists the House is a home, and a happy one. "Every one I met I liked; everyone--jocks, politicos, the rest--were really friendly." Klingensmith's willingness to defy some ministerial stereotypes made the four years easier. "I think its kind of funny that people think I'm straitlaced. If they see me with a beer...
...rubber rain boots, hastily borrowed from a local farmer named Greg Miller. The occasion: a quick stop in Fort Wayne, Ind., where for a few minutes last week the President joined a crew of flood-control workers in passing sandbags to be stacked along the muddy banks of the swollen St. Mary's River...