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Soft of voice and mild in manner, Attorney General William French Smith was chided by White House aides during his early months in office for sleepwalking through his job and being notably sluggish in guiding the Justice Department by the lights of Reagan philosophy. The Reaganites grumbled that the department was veering "out of control" and complained that Smith was failing to make his career bureaucrats toe the conservative line...
...week's end the President made his decision. According to the White House, a relatively mild cut of $11 billion will be made from the $554.5 billion in military-spending authorizations originally planned for fiscal 1983 and 1984. That will be preceded by a minor reduction of about $2 billion in the $221.3 billion already requested for fiscal 1982, which starts Oct. 1, mostly by delaying some unspecified weapons-procurement programs...
Spouting heresy in a mild and disarming manner, the wiry general doubts that we need the new MX missile system. He would exploit cruise missiles and hurry research to put future nuclear weapons on submarines. He would put no more American muscle into NATO, believing that if the Soviets decide to attack nations on the fringes of the Iron Curtain there is no way we can win. Our strategy must be to prevent such a move by raising the costs to their interests around the globe. Taylor argues that we need to take a closer look at the Kremlin...
...white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence about how to stay straight while being more cool than the druggies. When he sings, the mild jingle becomes a heavy-rhythm wail...
Meanwhile, Mick Jagger and friends were described as "having a great time" at Long View Farm in North Brookfield, Mass., where they have been rehearsing for the upcoming tour. Their reaction to the controversy in Boston was said by one source to be "mild amusement...