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...moment, the budget gap is indeed being left unattended. Though Rea gan in his State of the Union address called for a budget-reduction "down payment" of $100 billion over three years, negotiators from the White House and Congress have had only three halfhearted and inconclusive meetings on where to begin. Last week the President and the Democrats were pointing fingers at each other over who was really to blame for the huge deficits. Said Reagan in a press conference: "I am a little struck by these born-again budget balancers, who for 40 out of the last 44 years...
...game got under way last week as a bipartisan group of congressional leaders accepted an invitation to meet with Administration officials and start negotiations to fashion a $100 billion "down payment" deficit-reduction plan. Expectations for quick success were not high, partly because Reagan was far from the fray, at his California ranch. Complained Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan: "Here they are meeting, and the President is out of town on vacation. Unless he becomes more actively involved in the discussions, there will be a growing perception that the whole effort is not real...
...cannot be argued that a Harvard payment would not carry with it a degree of Harvard responsibility. Though not a contribution to ROTC itself, funds sent to MIT will support the program as a whole. As the overall nature of ROTC is discriminatory, any financial contribution or other official involvement on the part of Harvard will be a sign that Harvard is willing to condone or at least tolerate discrimination. After all Henry Moses, dean of Freshmen wrote to justify the termination of support for minority group-sponsored events during Freshman Week. "Since the FDO was funding the program...
...infamous red dot on a student's envelope is like a red light on a street corner--you can't go further until the color changes. To help the 600 to 800 students who each semester do not send payment by registration morning, the term bill office mans a table in Memorial Hall where undergraduates can settle...
...Typically 10 to 12 percent aren't clear on registration day, but often those people are coming through the door with a check in their hand," Homer explains. "By the end of the day there are usually no more than 200 who haven't made their payment...