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...chaired a meeting of the Cabinet in Reagan's absence, a symbol of the President's intense trust in his judgment on economic matters. One congressional Democrat describes him as being "like Svengali, like Rasputin to the Tsar." But others are awed by his incisive intelligence and command of numbers. Chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping weak coffee, Stockman last Friday discussed with TIME Correspondent David Beckwith his next challenge: helping persuade both Houses to accept the second round of budget cuts...
...times of trouble, it has been Harlow's observation, there are no absolutely correct answers to problems, only approximate ones. As he sees it, a President in command must hold his course, tell the dissenters to go to hell-if possible, making them like it-and inject a bit of fear into his adversaries. "World peace and economic health are the two issues before Reagan now," says Harlow. "The rest are dwarfed by them. The President is the whale and he cannot let himself be eaten by the guppies...
...last week Ronald Reagan was reaching for command, shoving his people into line, tuning them up and marching them off against incipient doubt and fear. On Thursday, after giving each of his Cabinet members a specific assignment in his new campaign to restore economic confidence, he seemed to be talking as much to the nation as to that small cluster of officials when he said, "They still won't believe us, but we are going to balance this budget...
...P.L.O.-National Movement command immediately blamed Israel for the terrorist attack, describing it as "part of the Zionist enemy's policy of continuing genocide against our Lebanese and Palestinian people." The Israelis made no public reply but privately indicated that they had had nothing to do with the bombing. A shadowy group called the Front for Liberating Lebanon from Foreigners claimed that it had engineered the assault. The group took responsibility for a second bombing that occurred almost simultaneously in the northern Lebanese town of Chekka, where an explosion outside a cement factory said to be owned by P.L.O...
...restating the church's teaching on human work, John Paul repeatedly cites God's command to man in Genesis to "subdue the earth." The Pope interprets this to mean that man is the "subject of labor" and that "work is 'for man,' and never man 'for work.' " He asserts the priority of labor over capital and, while restating the church's belief in the right to private property, argues that this right is not absolute but "subordinate to the right to common use, to the fact that goods are meant for everyone...