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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national fall protest and rally schedule was prepared this summer by the American Committee on Africa--a coalition of anti-apartheid groups--and the season opener is set for October 11. A spokesman for the group said that they hope to kick off the fall term students at colleges nationwide protesting university investments in companies that do business in South Africa. Harvard activists, however, said that they have yet to plan anything...
...Hutton scheme, several bank accounts were played off against one another to gain, in effect, interest-free loans. The operation gave the company use of as much as $250 million a day at no cost for 20 months beginning in July 1980. Short-term interest rates at the time were about...
...summit with the Soviets in Geneva, negotiating with Congress on a policy toward South Africa, reviving the dormant campaign for tax reform, and keeping even the modest deficit- reduction program from dissolving into a veto-ridden stalemate. Reagan's staff is aware that the success of his second term may be at stake. "It will be a crucial three or four months; we all know that," concedes a White House aide. "It's going to depend heavily on the President...
...situation? Stuart Spencer, Reagan's longtime political consultant and one of the rare associates with nerve enough to bring the President bad news, returned from a recent lunch at the ranch apparently converted to the President's habitual optimism. Spencer brushed off forebodings that Reagan's second term might be slipping into the kind of doldrums that affected Dwight Eisenhower's last four years, starting in 1957. "Eisenhower was tired of being President," Spencer argued. "This guy loves it and works at it. He's a different cat, a different animal than other politicians." Indeed, Reagan is returning to Washington...
...reform, one potentially historic innovation of Reagan's second term, House Speaker Tip O'Neill has promised to produce a bill before Christmas. But Senate Republican leaders show no similar disposition. They are still smarting from the President's refusal to back them last month after they agreed to a delay in Social Security cost of living adjustments to cut the deficit. Says Iowa's Republican Senator Charles Grassley: "He needs to give us a clear understanding of when he will be with us and when he won't, if he expects us to walk the plank...