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Males could increasingly be seen in flowing robes called gallabiya-that is, until the robes were forbidden by President Sadat last week. Devout young Muslims also favor trim beards, which some men were hastily shaving to escape detection in the roundup of religious dissidents. By adopting these modes of traditional attire, young Egyptians are manifesting a new Islamic fervor that is symptomatic of the opposition to Sadat's secular, pro-Western regime...
After the meeting, the White House announced that the President would soon propose major new cuts in federal spending. To emphasize his determination to balance the budget, Reagan has tentatively decided to trim $13 billion from his once sacrosanct defense spending goals over the next three years. His only alternative would be a politically risky move to reduce Social Security benefits. Defense, Social Security and interest on the national debt make up about 60% of the budget, and other programs have already been slashed to barebone levels, prompting street demonstrations by labor unions and other angry groups. Without rollbacks...
Rather than deciding where to trim the budget next, the Republican leadership last week first
...Sunday, then so be it. Never mind that the race he was passing up was a qualifying heat for the 1924 Olympics in Paris. Never mind that the Prince of Wales (played with sublime twittiness by David Yelland) was enlisted in the fruitless attempt to force him to trim his conscience...
Secretary of Education T.H. Bell, with ample encouragement from the Reagan budget office, has warned against premature celebrations. Acknowledging his mandate to trim the department's budget from $14.8 billion to $13.1 billion for the 1983 fiscal year, Bell announced recently that some of the new reductions would be in student loans. "To borrow a line from Macbeth, 'We have scotched the snake but not killed it,'" he reportedly told financial aid administrators in August...