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...WHITE HOUSE: The Unkindest...
...Reagan years were unkind to college students. Cuts in student aid programs made mounting tuition bills even harder to pay. Although this in itself was bad enough, perhaps the unkindest cut of all was not financial...
...then the Soviet President delivered what was probably the unkindest cut of all to Ryzhkov. He indicated that he preferred not his Prime Minister's proposals but a radical plan drafted by the Yeltsin-Gorbachev commission, under the leadership of economist Stanislav Shatalin. "If you ask me," he said, "I am more impressed by the Shatalin plan." The Ryzhkov proposals, he noted, reflected an "uncertainty" about carrying out measures to rebuild economic confidence. Explained Gorbachev: "If there is a real plan to stabilize finances, money circulation, the ruble and the market, then we should adopt the Shatalin idea...
...letter charged that Khomeini stooped to "collaboration" with Israel in order to secure U.S. weapons, sponsored terrorists who have "filled the entire world with hatred against our country" and led Iran to the "verge of bankruptcy." In the unkindest cut, the missive laid the blame for recent setbacks in the eight-year-old war with Iraq at Khomeini's feet and begged him to "stop trafficking in the blood of our martyrs...
...unkindest cut of all, though, came from Olympic Coach Dave Peterson who said, "[Harvard] and Vermont look pretty equal...