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...also includes touching up brick work and giving the buildings a good scrubbing. The extensive work on the 50 year old Houses presents an unprecedented assignment to builders, and Project Manager Roger Caver says "it's too early to tell" whether all work will be finished by the target date, now seven weeks away The House renovations were slowed initially by a two week delay in June...
After repeated warnings failed to convince more than 500,000 young men to register for a possible draft (7.5 million complied), the Government decided to prosecute some of the holdouts. The first indictment was handed up last week, and it was immediately clear that the Government had picked a target who could fight back. Benjamin Sasway, 21, of Vista, Calif., a political-science major at Humboldt State University, forcefully argued the anti-draft-registration position at a series of press conferences. Said he: "Conscription deprives people, most fundamentally, of the freedom of moral choice-the very essence of all other...
Haig's resignation did not appease the opinion molders on the right. Instead, it has removed their favorite target, forcing them to aim somewhat reluctantly at Reagan himself. Columnist Will had greeted Haig's appointment as "The Right Man for the Job" ("Boy, was I wrong about that," he says now). But in a Newsweek column, Will last month denounced "Haigism" as softness in foreign affairs. He knew who was finally responsible: "Reagan has had less impact on foreign policy than any modern President (Ford excepted)." When it came to the President personally, however, Will was circumspect: "Reagan...
Finding himself increasingly the target of such criticism, Sharon struck back at his detractors with characteristic bluntness. Asked by a BBC interviewer about the high number of civilian casualties, the burly and irascible Defense Minister thundered: "I remember how you [the British] totally destroyed cities in World War II. I never heard one word from you when Jews were killed by the P.L.O. in Israel and in Europe. I never heard one word about the [P.L.O.'s] massacre of Christians in Lebanon. We have shown more humanity in this operation than you British have shown anywhere, at any time...
...budget deficit? "Beats me," shrugs Colorado Republican William Armstrong, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. "It's painful work. It's kind of like walking over coals barefoot." Adds Texas Democrat Kent Hance of the House Ways and Means Committee: "No way. Coming in on target is just not going to happen...