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...defense buildup and tax cuts without a price, that the country could live beyond its means indefinitely. The initial Reagan years, with their aura of tinseled optimism, had restored the nation's tattered pride and the lost sense that leadership was possible in the presidency. But he stayed a term too long. As he shouted befuddled Hooverisms over the roar of his helicopter last week or doddered precariously through his press conference, Reagan appeared embarrassingly irrelevant to a reality that he could scarcely comprehend. Stripped of his ability to create economic illusions, stripped of his chance to play host...
Callahan's long-term limits -- medical, economic and social -- will seem harsh to many. He would have Congress restrict Medicare payments for such ! procedures as organ transplants, heart bypasses and kidney dialysis for the aged. States should give legal status to "living wills," allowing individuals to demand that they not be kept alive artificially. Respirators would not be used for the terminally ill. On the emotional issue of extending life by use of feeding tubes, he reasons that as external life extenders in some cases, they also should be treated as artificial intrusions. His logic moves inexorably...
...cuts were accompanied by a substantial increase in federal spending, despite Reagan's campaign promises about reining in the Government. During the Administration's first term, total federal spending jumped 26%, to $852 billion in fiscal 1984. The biggest item was defense, reflecting the President's view that the military had suffered a decade of neglect in the 1970s. Reagan's buildup cost $1.2 trillion over the fiscal years 1981-'86, which boosted military spending 41% after adjustment for inflation. Among the new hardware: the B-1B bomber (cost: $280 billion) and the MX missile system ($20.7 billion...
Like sedated Clydesdales, the fans of St. Louis have been trained to clomp along to the Bud theme played incessantly as a rallying call. Advertisers might term this subconscious motivation, but it is conscious aggravation to everyone else. And someone seems to open the hatch to the broadcast booth whenever the organist strikes up again. After three days of shouting over an uninterrupted commercial, ABC's Al Michaels, Tim McCarver and Jim Palmer must have been glad to get back to the relative quiet of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome...
...announcement was a devastating political blow for Reagan, all but ending his last, best hope for recovering from a string of setbacks that have left him, with 15 months remaining in his term, not just a lame duck but a crippled one. One after another, his major goals for this fall have gone aglimmering: the appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the hope to win renewed funding for the contras in Nicaragua, and his aim of pushing through a budget plan that would protect defense spending without raising existing taxes or imposing new ones. The stock-market plunge...