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...manager's estimate, he gave 18 interviews, mostly to reporters who did not forget to bring, along with their tape recorders, that other essential of the up-to-date journalist's trade, a checkbook. Then he flew off to Monte Carlo to visit his money, for after all a tax shelter can spring a leak if your attention is too long diverted...
...mistake, your tax refund is too big. Do you tell the IRS? You want a child but your partner doesn't. Do you stop using contraceptives without your mate's knowledge? A friend asks you to write a reference, but you feel he's poorly qualified for the job. Do you refuse? These are among the 245 moral dilemmas, both large and small, posed by A Question of Scruples, a provocative new game from Canada that is already bidding to match the popularity of an earlier north-of-the-border import, Trivial Pursuit...
...disquieting bulletin from Bethesda comes at a time when Reagan's most prized initiatives--tax reform, arms control, deficit reduction--are drifting if not sinking. His game recovery will undoubtedly arouse popular sympathy, but it may not do much to soften skeptical congressional leaders, much less Soviet negotiators...
Reagan's handlers would like to recreate the atmospherics of April 1981, when the President triumphantly bounced back from a bullet wound to address a whistling, cheering Congress. The outpouring of good will helped propel both significant spending reductions and a huge tax cut through Congress over that summer. Some have suggested that the Reaganauts might once again translate public sympathy for Reagan into a congressional goad. "If he returns by the fall, now having licked the Big C, he becomes an even more formidable political figure," says White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. To be sure, Reagan's stock...
...Reagan was shot in 1981. Then the Hill Republicans were relatively united behind him; now they are badly split and fearful about their own political fates. Almost half the Senate Republicans are up for re-election in 1986, and most are afraid that pocketbook issues like Social Security or tax deductions for second-home mortgages will weigh more heavily with voters than Reagan's standing in the polls...