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...auspicious beginning for the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. No sooner had Jim Wright of Texas been voted into the top job in Congress last week than he called for a delay in reducing the top rate called for in the new tax-reform bill. Congressional Republicans and the Administration jumped all over him, and fellow Democrats recoiled in dismay, hearing echoes of Walter Mondale's disastrous appeal for a tax increase during the 1984 campaign. Though Wright's proposal would apply only to couples with taxable incomes exceeding $150,000, a tax hike of any kind seemed...
...critic, Bruno Zevi, who considers her work inspired and sensitive. "In another, she's unsuccessful -- up to now her work has been limited to various forms of 're': refurbishing, renovating, recycling." But after Orsay, there is no doubt that Aulenti -- who lists her primary modernist influences as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and above all the American architect Louis Kahn -- will be seen worldwide as a major architect, not a recycler...
...negotiations with the Iranians. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia contends that the permitted delay "might be 18 hours, but not 18 months." Anyway, the Democrats claim, Section 501 demands that prior notice be given at least to the eight senior leaders no matter what. Says Congressman Wright: "The law is not ambiguous." Even some Republicans agreed. Said Indiana's Richard Lugar, outgoing chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "I suspect the President does not understand...
...newest lost generation, the shadow that America crosses the street to avoid and finds uncomfortable to discuss. It evokes a sense of fear laced with guilt, anger tinged with racism. For many of these youths, fathering children out of wedlock and committing crimes are rites of passage. Richard Wright drew a complex portrait of such disaffected young black men in the character of Bigger Thomas, the antihero of his controversial 1940 protest novel Native Son. Today there is a new generation of Bigger Thomases in the U.S., thousands of Native Sons who can be seen hanging out on street corners...
Critics of Reagan's domestic policies say that the cuts in social spending he has made hit the poor particularly hard. According to Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, programs aiding impoverished children and families have lost $10 billion since 1980. The federal Work Incentive Program, which provides job training and support services to welfare recipients, has been cut from $210.5 million to $110 million in the fiscal 1987 budget. The President has proposed junking the program altogether...