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Viewers of a national political convention are sometimes encouraged to believe that the proceedings themselves are all-consuming, that life outside the convention hall somehow grinds to a halt while the party goes about the momentous business of drafting a platform and picking a ticket. Delegates know better. Like tourists everywhere, they are eager to sample the sights and sounds of the host city. So numerous are San Francisco's attractions that it may be difficult to lure delegates into the convention hall. Herewith a compendium of people, places and things that figure to be conspicuous during the Democrats...
...grudging agreement. House Democrats are calling for a $96 billion defense cut, and for a while last week threatened to vote down an urgently needed increase in the national-debt ceiling unless the Senate gave in. Faced with the prospect that the Government would grind to a halt during the three-week congressional recess, the Democrats eventually relented and went along with a $53 billion debt-ceiling increase, raising the figure to an almost unimaginable $1.6 trillion. Even this will allow the Government to borrow only enough to pay its bills through August...
...that, of the 16 NATO countries, only the U.S., Canada and Luxembourg had consistently met the 3% goal since 1980. NATO's conventional forces, Nunn argued, currently serve as "little more than a delayed trip wire for early resort to nuclear escalation," because they could do little to halt a Soviet invasion without tactical nuclear weapons...
...basic problem, however, is that no one wants to suffer the pain that will be involved in any solution to the debt crisis. Banks are not eager to write off the bad loans and take the earnings loss, while governments in the developed countries are reluctant to halt economic growth just to please foreign moneymen. Thus, no sudden solution is likely to emerge. Says one IMF official: "It is a negotiating process that will run through most of the 1980s." Mexican Finance Secretary Silva Herzog last week recalled Economist John Maynard Keynes' dictum: "Men will do the rational thing...
...chance, the family in the house across the street was that of a young radio broadcaster, Phil Donahue, with five growing children. Donahue, an old friend now, whose morning TV appearances bring housework to a halt across the country, confirms that Bombeck was by no means the neighborhood clown. She and Bill, he says, were among the most hardworking of the development's house-proud do-it-yourselfers. All the houses had Early American furniture, including the inevitable rocker with a cushion tied to the back. The idea of Bombeck as a hopelessly disorganized housewife "is, at the very...