Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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State Department policy-makers have been frustrated that the White House, preoccupied with Reagan's economic program, has done nothing to develop a Middle East policy, and that the President has displayed a degree of innocence about the issues involved. If nothing else, the specialists at State hope that the cordial meeting with Sadat helped focus Reagan's attention on the intricacy and urgency of the region's problems...
...President will have to make even sharper spending cuts. By Administration estimates, which many private economists feel are too rosy, almost $30 billion more in reductions will be needed for 1983. Even the Defense Department has been instructed to prepare a list of possible cuts. Says Meese: "No program is immune." Despite the public outcry, the presidential counsellor claims "the cuts so far have been relatively minimal, not by any means draconian...
...pursuing his economic program, Reagan demonstrated an impressive ability to keep public attention-and his own-fixed on a single subject. Act II will be harder to choreograph. Says one close adviser: "As an outgrowth of the election, it was possible to keep the focus unblurred and put other issues on the back burner. Now, there will be more balls...
...belief has been forged into pride, as the Administration has succeeded with its initiatives. The process has not been smooth or faultless by a long shot. The Communist threat to El Salvador was overstated. The idea of cutting back Social Security benefits was premature and ill-considered. The immigration program consumed five Cabinet meetings with debate and bickering. But even skeptical aides see that Reagan never turned away from his demands for decisions and his insistence on action. When talk sprang up about compromise on budget cuts, he said no. When he was offered an enticing alternative...
...each day. The trays of food are always there. Radios are in each room and the strikers listen for special songs played for them by name by a sympathetic local station. But the men are even more interested in the hourly news, often interrupting conversation when they realize the program has already started, hoping, in the midst of dying, they will get word that the British have relented-that they can live. For two hours each evening, from 6 o'clock to 8, the hunger strikers are allowed to visit together in a small television room. Four or five...