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Given the risks, Haig concluded that the gamble of high-level diplomacy must be undertaken immediately, although he recognizes that failure would worsen the problem markedly. But he felt, as an aide put it, that he had "a reasonable shot" at succeeding. Haig saw last week's trip as a chance to prepare the groundwork for serious bargaining by immersing himself for the first time in the complex mixture of history, prejudice, aspirations and paranoia that governs Middle Eastern diplomacy...
...harsh economic package of tight money and crippling cuts in social spending all but guaranteed that the nation's job-less rate would reach the 8.9-per-cent mark it did last month--the second highest monthly figure since 1941. But sadly, the job situation seems almost certain to worsen this year, under the weight of the President's new--but still oppressive--economic initiatives. Equally discouraging, America's ailing inner cities again seem first on the White House's chopping block...
...contradictory speeches the night before. Then Wednesday morning, in his red speechifying vest, he spent one hour and four minutes saying no. Argued Byrd: "The primary focus of concern for the countries in the region remains the Arab-Israeli conflict, not the Soviet threat." The AWACS sale would only worsen that conflict, said Byrd, because it would "transfer the mantle of a U.S. client state" to the Saudis, and thus compel them to take a hard line to prove their independence...
...problem is that a recession would shrink tax revenues and increase Government spending for measures like unemployment compensation. Thus the slump now under way seems sure to worsen federal deficits that already are spiraling out of control. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici estimated last week that the deficit in fiscal 1982 could total $60 billion, vs. an Administration forecast of $43 billion, and could be $70 billion in fiscal 1984, the year in which Reagan has pledged to balance the budget. Red ink on anything like that scale could both delay recovery from recession, because Government borrowing to cover...
...middle-class Blacks have sometimes served to exacerbate the disappoinements and frustrations of the estimated 35 percent of Black Americans who are currently below the poverty line. The Black poor now see many of their brethren "making it" while their own sad conditions persist of in many cases worsen. One example of the deterioration in the condition of the Black poor is a frightening rise in female-headed households. While in the early '60s 23 er cent of Black families were headed by a female, today that figure has skyrocketed to over 40 per cent. Since female-headed ouseholds have...