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...World War II, its defense is still linked to U.S. nuclear power, Americans need to be reminded that there is no alternative to their special relationship with Europe. It is understandable that if the Continent decided to disarm, some might think the U.S. would do well to abandon Europe, along with the pride...
...Nestle products could be an important first step towards mobilizing public opinion against infant formula. All students should sign the petitions; and students should neither use Nestle products like iced tea now in the dining halls nor buy Nestle products on their own. Likewise, the Harvard administration should abandon the lame excuses it has offered before--that boycotts represent an unacceptable moral stand by a university--when students have urged other product boycotts in the past. Students have a good chance to send an important message to the multinationals and the American government to subservient to their wishes. We urge...
...once the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai is completed next April, feels that the peace would be more durable if a settlement could be reached before then. Further more, there is growing concern in Jerusalem that Washington is becoming disenchanted with the slow pace of the autonomy talks and might abandon the Camp David approach in favor of the Fahd plan or some other alternative...
...Weidenbaum, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Martin Anderson, Assistant for Policy Development. They all urged the President to cling to his goal of a balanced budget by going along with tax increases. Stockman stressed that Reagan had spoken publicly of the balanced budget too often to abandon it. But the Treasury Secretary shrewdly argued that the President had only presented a balanced 1984 budget as a target, until pushed by reporters into viewing it as a promise. In fact, however, Reagan's first formal four-year economic program projected a surplus of $500 million...
...Wednesday, Stockman privately passed the word to Domenici that the President had to oppose tax increases publicly, but that the Budget Committee chairman should not abandon his tax increase plans. Regan on the same day met with key Republican Senators in Majority Leader Howard Baker's office and made a strong pitch against tax hikes, insisting that the entire Reagan economic program would "lose credibility" if big increases were enacted. But the Senators were not convinced. Said one, referring to the President: "We have to get it from the man himself...