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...absence of national policies to help working mothers reflects traditional American attitudes: old-fashioned motherhood has stood right up there with the flag and apple pie in the pantheon of American ideals. To some people day-care centers, particularly government-sponsored ones, threaten family values; they seem a step on the slippery slope toward an Orwellian socialist nightmare. But such abstract concerns have largely receded as the very concrete need for child care is confronted by people from all walks of life...
...joke. Reports the former President: "It was the worst thing we ever tried to do together, and we will never do it again." Part of the trouble arose from their conflicting views of the same event. At one point, they report, the arguments became severe enough to threaten their 40-year marriage. "Once I accused him of destroying my memories," Rosalynn recalls. Counters Jimmy: "If she wrote something, it was sacred, as though she received it from God on Mount Sinai, and nobody could modify a word of it." Eventually they settled on a compromise: each section is preceded...
...response, Falwell scoffed, "To say that Jerry Falwell stole PTL is like accusing someone of stealing the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg." As Falwell told it, Bakker "misled me and lied to me in the meeting in Palm Springs." The Lynchburg televangelist insisted that he did not threaten Bakker with the Swaggart takeover rumor. Rather, Bakker asked him to take over PTL, saying, "You're the only preacher I trust right...
Troubled economic waters threaten the Venice summit. -- Has James Baker' s star waned? -- A new debt boom in home- equity loans...
...York's Senator Pat Moynihan raised hackles a while back by suggesting that the hostility between Government and the media was becoming a culture that could threaten the democratic process, which in the end needs as much understanding and cooperation as criticism. "Each branch of Government is so big and overstuffed it is almost impossible to sit down quietly with one another," declared Cutler. "Someone gets on television by making a sharp attack. This is more a system of shared powers than a lot of people are willing to admit. We've got to learn to get together...