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...mischief making around the globe, will also ease some of the pressure that Reagan has been feeling from both the West European antinuclear movement and domestic advocates of an arms freeze. However, the proposal is so ambitious-and so favorable to the U.S.-that it is likely to touch off a new round of debate about the feasibility, and even the sincerity, of Administration arms-control policy. At the same time, the far right is likely to criticize Reagan for proposing any diplomacy at all with the Soviets...
...Budget Committee, Domenici pushed for an updated version of a budget he had proposed last February. The major problem: Domenici still insisted on freezing cost of living adjustments (COLAs) for Social Security this year. Reagan and his aides quickly dismissed that plan as politically suicidal. "We decided not to touch Social Security for purely selfish political reasons," admitted one White House assistant. "For the good of the economy, it should be adjusted...
...does not appear to be basing his decision on the counsel of the British Catholic hierarchy. But he will no doubt listen with special attentiveness to American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, who handles the logistics and security for papal trips. By week's end, the archbishop was in constant touch with Portuguese authorities ("There will be police and security men everywhere," said one Fatima official) and worrying, next things next, about details of the trip to England...
...some of it is not. An indication of this may now be seen at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan through June 27. The Whitney has long been conscientious about video art, showing it in regular programs through the 1970s when other museums would hardly condescend to touch it. Now the Whitney becomes the first American museum to give a retrospective show to a video artist. He is Nam June Paik, a Korean who lives in New York City...
...than Athol Fugard, who has probed the corrosive effect of apartheid on his fellow South Africans in eight of his 16 plays, ranging from The Blood Knot to last season's award-winning A Lesson from Aloes. To each of his works, he brings a tormented conscience, a touch of the poet and a scalding honesty...