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...feared that a tour this week of poverty areas in the U.S. would get similar treatment. For most people, Kennedy suggested with a smile, "the more important issue seems to be whether my weight is going up or down." (It has been going down, previously a surefire tip-off to political observers that he was preparing to run.) "I wanted to be President, and I still do," he conceded. "I would have been a strong contender. I had put together a good political organization...
...three-year-old economic recovery is vulnerable to a host of debilitating troubles. Growth has been going on for so long that an unexpected development like poor Christmas sales or a falloff in auto production could tip the economy into recession. After good growth of 3.4% in 1983 and 6.6% in 1984, the U.S. economy in 1985 expanded just 2.4%. Nonetheless TIME's Board of Economists offers an optimistic forecast for American business, predicting steady if unspectacular growth in the coming year. Board members declared that the economy will move forward and avoid a recession...
...back halls of the Capitol, Gramm-Rudman brought hoots of derision from staffers. "Today we begin Government by Veg-O-Matic," declared Chris Matthews, a top aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill, sardonically referring to the kitchen device once hawked on late-night TV ("It slices! It dices! It really, really works!"). On the floor, some prominent legislators were scornful. Gramm-Rudman, huffed Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, "is just about the dumbest piece of legislation I have seen in my 15 years on Capitol Hill." O'Neill himself warned, "Wait until...
...young-looking 33, and has never held public office. But when Joseph P. Kennedy II, the second of Robert Kennedy's eleven children, announced last week that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat to be vacated next year by outgoing Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, he had the weight of history behind him: his uncle John F. Kennedy won Massachusetts' Eighth Congressional District in 1946. "That seat," said another uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, "obviously has special meaning to our family...
...also set the stage for an unusual battle: the White House will be lobbying against the House G.O.P. leadership to persuade Republican members to vote for a Democratic tax bill. Nor could Reagan count on much sympathy from Democrats. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "If he doesn't want to fail, he better get some votes out there...