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...trans-Pacific call was evidence that not all members of Congress use the Easter recess, which ended this week, to sound out their constituents at home. Yet as TIME correspondents tracked some of the many lawmakers who do, the voters seemed to be giving them a fairly consistent message. The gist: most citizens view the recuperating President as a highly likable person; his priority in attacking inflation by curbing federal spending coincides neatly with their own sense of the nation's most urgent problem. But they are not at all sure that his specific spending cuts are distributed fairly...
...clear and balmy morning. For once, Lebanon's guns had fallen silent. The Easter message of peace and Resurrection was delivered from countless Christian pulpits across the land. The Voice of Hope, the radio station that supports Major Sa'ad Haddad, the leader of the Israeli-supported Christian militia in southern Lebanon, went on the air with readings from the Gospels...
...says that its budget is untouchable. No Administration has ever made such demands, and no Congress has ever accepted such demands." Only one Democrat, archconservative Phil Gramm of Texas, sided with the twelve Republicans in support of the President. Thus when Congress broke on Friday for a two-week Easter recess, the President's figures had been challenged by the budget committees of both legislative chambers...
Although he'll return to Paramus Red Wave this summer, the versatile Ted Chappell, who paced the Harvard squad to another Easter Collegiate Title earlier this year with three wins, will also swim for Gator...
...since, with the war ending and the draft no longer a threat, youngsters as a whole have not showed much inclination to give themselves to public causes even as voters, let alone as life crusaders. While they occasionally barge into the national consciousness during such rites as their pre-Easter pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., they seem to live mostly outside adult view. As a result, they have given the larger society no clear impression of what they are like...