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...Empress, standing behind him, fumbled in her purse for dark glasses. Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, eyes streaming, covered their faces. Only Carter, still speaking, refused to flinch. Tears rolled out of the President's eyes, but he made no move to wipe them. Recovering his composure when it was his turn to speak, the Shah thanked Carter for "your very warm welcome," and the official party quickly retreated to the White House. Out on Pennsylvania Avenue, it took police another hour to get the melee under control. The day's toll...
...immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class Americans and business people. There are still echoes of Jimmy Carter's campaign promises to push for major tax reform, and that could wipe out many of the small harbors of tax relief...
TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis, who drove south from Beirut to the scene of the raids, last week filed this report: "The Israeli bombers dropped enough bombs on 'Izziyah to wipe Yankee Stadium off the face of the earth. In all, 54 houses were leveled. What had once been a village was suddenly a furrowed land of 20-odd bomb craters...
...improving labor conditions worldwide, it also has become a forum for Third World and Communist attacks against U.S. Middle East policy and especially against Israel. Both the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce favored the pullout-the first American withdrawal from a U.N. agency. The action will wipe out U.S. financial support of the I.L.O., which amounts to about a fourth of the 135-member organization's $80 million annual budget...
...Soviets would likely respond by putting their land-based missiles on tracks, affording them greater protection. This predictable Soviet response to the MX would seem to negate whatever value it has as a weapon for effective limited counter-force; if the MX is invulnerable, it would be unable to wipe out similarly mobile Soviet missiles and therefore be useless to develop. If, on the other hand, Soviet mobile missiles could be destroyed by accurate, high-yield weapons, then the MX itself would be vulnerable to a first-strike, eliminating its main selling point...