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...mere four days, the committee voted to reduce planned expenditures in fiscal 1982, which starts Oct. 1, by $36.4 billion-actually $2.3 billion more than Reagan asked.* Combining bluster and blarney, Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico easily held his eleven fellow Republicans together against all attempts by the ten Democrats to narrow reductions in social programs. Frustrated and divided, the Democrats in the end joined in a unanimous vote for the full package. "We are wreaking unbelievable havoc on the lives of millions of poor Americans," mourned Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum -just before he meekly murmured...
...Congress: liberal Democrats would vote to keep Social Security pensions and veterans' benefits from rising quite as fast as the CPI. In return, conservative Republicans just might go along with the Democrats in reducing the cuts in health, nutrition and other programs for the poor. New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, indicates support for such a compromise and predicts that Reagan might accept it too. Indeed, some congressional cynics suggest that the President is trying to maneuver them into taking the blame for cuts in Social Security and veterans' benefits that they believe...
...ROLLER COASTER of a movie barrels toward hell: the lead singer dies, and Tony deserts his kid ("Little Pete") on a NYC street. Bakshi decides to bring the story up to the present while linking it with the past, so Pete struts the street to Pat Benatar's recent "Hell is for Children" (a dismal choice for an anthem!) and stops to look in a doorway where an orthodox rabbi is chanting and moves on. Young punks denying their past! Oy vey! The screen explodes into surreal dance on the edges of razor blades, mouth-piercing safety pins...
...Pete becomes a cocaine dealer, topping off a family involved with gangsters, sleazy dancehalls, and sex, and American Pop slips and slides into the ooze as Pete sings a medley of "Blue Suede Shoes/Devil with the Blue Dress/crazy on you," trying to span three decades but making no sense. Why these songs? Why have all the other characters lip-synch or listen to original recordings, but now inject a studio band's tepid interpretation...
Bennett Midlo, the relay's regular leadoff man, succumbed to tendonitis and was replaced by Pete Rittenburg. Rittenburg, who had placed eighth in the pentathalon earlier in the day, and regulars Scott Murrer, Marc Chappus, and Dave Frim could not make up the difference...