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Hartke blasts Lujan for missing 1,000 congressional votes over the years, earning a substantial part of his $134,000 income last year from a family insurance firm, supporting Reagan's economic policies and defending Interior Secretary James Watt. Says Hartke: "Lujan represents the big corporations and the rich. He's forgotten about the people...
Significantly, Kohl has agreed to appoint Friedrich Zimmermann, 57, his Interior Minister. Zimmermann is a conservative long known for his anti-immigration and anti environmentalist views. His name was put forward for the job by Franz Josef Strauss, the abrasive head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to the C.D.U.* The Interior Minister's appointment has already raised protests from a wide range of left-wing groups, including the Greens, the growing third force in West German politics, who recently won 8% of the vote in local elections in the industrial state of Hesse. A loose...
...sense, Cats needs every penny of that, which includes the sums forthcoming from 330 theater parties that have signed up for special blocks of seats. The show cost a princely $4 million or so to mount. It cost $2.5 million to strip-mine the interior and stage of the Winter Garden Theater and construct a cats' Valhalla of a nocturnal dump. Cost of restoration when Cats eventually vacates: an additional $1.5 million...
Some of the heaviest pressure on Begin was coming from within his Cabinet. Interior Minister Yosef Burg, Welfare and Labor Minister Aharon Uzan and Minister Without Portfolio Mordechai Ben-Porat publicly announced that they would demand a full commission of inquiry at a formal meeting of the Cabinet. The implication was clear: the government would fall if those ministers withdrew their support. Even Begin seemed to realize that defiance was hopeless. On the eve of the crucial Cabinet meeting, his aides passed the word that he was receptive to the idea of a judicial probe...
...Ronald Reagan. I have seen our country suffer from the policies initiated by President Reagan in economics, in foreign policy, in some social programs. He has undone important accomplishments not only of me and other Democratic Presidents but of his Republican predecessors. Reagan and James Watt, his Interior Secretary, have tried to undo much of the progress made in environmental quality dating from Abraham Lincoln to Richard Nixon. It is grievously damaging. The budget deficits that Reagan will accumulate in four years, while claiming to be a fiscal conservative, exceed the total deficits of all the peacetime years