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...understandably an alluring proposition for the administration. The country's near-monopolies on the world's gold, diamonds and aluminum make trade with South Africa an essential resource value for the economies of the United States as well as other nations. Moreover, South Africa's domination of the peninsular tip of the continent effectively counters Soviet and Cuban presence in other parts of Southern Africa...
Although the report depicts the Kremlin as trying to tip the military balance in its favor, the study lacks any systematic comparison with U.S. or allied forces. The Soviets, for example, have nothing in their naval arsenal to match the U.S. fleet of 13 aircraft carriers. While NATO is outflanked by Soviet tanks, the allies have beefed up their defenses with thousands of antitank missiles. Nevertheless, Gregory Treverton, assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, complimented the report for its exhaustive detail and declared that it "does not overemphasize Soviet power." The Government Printing Office...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill has frequently grumbled that Reagan threatens to undo all the social good achieved since the New Deal. The argument is political grandstanding. As the President noted at his press conference, "Twenty-two million people were eligible for food stamps before the reform-some 21 million will still be eligible today ... about 40 million individuals are still provided with over $50 billion in cash and in in-kind benefits in eight major public assistance programs other than Social Security." Even the more heavily trimmed programs, like school lunches, appear to be in surprisingly good shape...
...contest was marked by surges by both teams, with momentum changing hands at the tip of the net. The outcome boiled down to the net. The outcome boiled down to the inexperience of a Harvard team that just this year acquired varsity status...
...many of the wards--Ward 1 in East Cambridge, for example--that have been rejecting CCA candidates for conservative members of the Independent slate would support a non-CCA liberal, he adds. "These working class neighborhoods are the same neighborhoods that put Tip O'Neill and Jack Kennedy in office...