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...Democrats' plan was designed to attract both liberals, who worry that Reagan's cuts in such programs as food stamps and Medicaid would grievously hurt the poor, and conservatives, who are fearful of a tide of red ink stemming from the President's proposed tax slashes. Republicans promptly assailed the program as the product of some highly questionable arithmetic. Nonetheless, the House Budget Committee last week voted 17 to 13 to reject Reagan's spending and revenue estimates and substitute a set prepared by Chairman James Jones of Oklahoma, the principal architect of the counterbudget. Noted...
...which would ease restrictions on the interstate sales of guns-considered introducing it two weeks ago, but held off when Reagan was shot. No one seriously doubts that once the public outcry over the assassination attempt dies down, the bill will show up on the docket. Obedient to the tide of Mailgrams, hundreds of Congressmen will do their best to see that it becomes law. -By Walter Isaacson...
Short of intervention, Moscow's hopes of stemming a tide of democratization seemed to rest with Polish hard-liners like Politburo Members Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski. If they could seize the upper hand within the party, then the Soviets would probably have no immediate need to go in. Brezhnev himself reportedly requested that Olszowski be sent to represent the Polish party in Prague last week, and the two men held long consultations there. Some Western analysts speculated that a new party shake-up might soon substitute Olszowski for Kania, whose name went conspicuously unmentioned at the Prague congress...
Founded in 1865 to combat the rising tide of counterfeit "greenbacks" then flooding the country, the agency now numbers some 1,500 special agents, up from 389 at the time of Kennedy's assassination. Once selected, a recruit is dispatched to offices around the country to help track down counterfeiters and pursue stolen or forged Government checks and bonds. Only superior agents are eventually picked to serve in the protection service, which is responsible for guarding not only the President, the Vice President and their families, but also presidential candidates and former Presidents...
...their current popularity and lubricity, novel-romances are old, old stories. They began flooding the market in England during the last decades of the 18th century; they were part of the tide that engulfed the certainties of the Enlightenment. Unlike the newly invented gothic tale, which stressed the pleasures of terror, the sentimental romances emphasized the happy sensation of a good cry. They also quickly debased the emerging philosophical notion that feelings were the most reliable guide to truth. If so, reasoned the romancers, then the person with the most flamboyantly acute sensitivities must be better than less hysterical mortals...