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...deficit in general and with Japan in particular. "The point is we are already at war with Japan. The problem is that we have not been fighting back," declared Republican Senator Pete Wilson of California. In a broader offensive, three House committees approved new trade legislation that would mandate tougher ways of dealing with uncooperative trading partners like Japan...
...work paid off. When Reagan walked into the family dining room at the end of his performance, Baker proclaimed, "You did even better than you did in your last rehearsal." Replied the President: "Your questions were a lot tougher than the ones the press asked...
Vittimberga says that his fears came a little later, once he arrived on campus. He says he felt he had "a tougher time adjusting to the freshman scene," than those who had gone straight to college, but adds he thinks he knew better what "I wanted, what my options were." Vittimberga agrees with Frusztajer that "academically I was much more motivated than I had ever been. Now I looked at classes as a way to learn, rather than as an excuse for being in school...
...Said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "The President is rightfully angry at the mismanagement that has occurred, and he is determined to make changes." Most of Don Regan's assistants, often derided as the "mice," will shortly follow their chief out the White House door. The Cabinet is a tougher problem. The present members most criticized by the Tower panel are the least likely to go: Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Attorney General Edwin Meese...
Gephardt has been one of the loudest proponents in Congress for reversing the nation's $170 billion trade deficit through tougher legislation, including retaliatory measures against countries that refuse to open their markets to U.S. goods. He said last week, "People sitting in cushy offices, in secure jobs, have no right to tell workers on assembly lines that their livelihoods have to be sacrificed on the altar of a false and rigid free-trade ideology...