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...Japan, the Administration's tough action sparked widespread consternation. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, editorialized that the sanctions were "detrimental to the interests of American consumers." The liberal daily Asahi Shimbun declared darkly that "trade war has now come about." In Manhattan, the usually pro-Reaganaut Wall Street Journal warned that "high-stakes trade retaliation, like Russian roulette, is a dangerous game, and the world doesn't benefit when the President of the United States leads by bad example...
Howls are still resounding on Capitol Hill over his announcement last week of the 1988 education budget. Bennett, a doctrinaire Reaganaut when it comes to reducing the Federal Government's role in education, proposed slashing $5.5 billion from this year's appropriation of $19.5 billion. Such notions usually get short shrift in Congress. Robert Atwell, president of the American Council on Education, brands the new proposed cuts "indecent." And Congressman Hawkins says of other parts of the new budget, "It's nuts...
...Reagan Administration is the widespread insistence that we must all be poker-faced about it . . . C'mon, everybody, admit it. We're high." A few days later Kinsley turned up in the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page primly savages Reagan's critics and sometimes finds Reagan insufficiently a Reaganaut. Kinsley noted gleefully that the Journal now "has been oddly subdued...
...have constituted a "turning point in world history." In his TV speech the Soviet leader at times took a condescending, almost derisive tone toward Reagan, portraying the President as a confused leader "demonstrating his complete ignorance and misunderstanding of . . . the socialist world." But Gorbachev was as insistent as any Reaganaut in denying that the summit had failed. Said Gorbachev: "The work that went on during the meeting will not be wasted . . . We have cleared the path toward developing further struggle for peace and disarmament...
Robertson does not have to think of new ways to be provocative. His assaults on "secular humanists" and the Supreme Court, his oblique allusions to the superiority of "Christians" as he defines them, aroused a backlash even before his announcement. Education Secretary William Bennett, a staunch conservative Reaganaut, condemned some of Robertson's rhetoric as "invidious sectarianism that must be renounced in the strongest terms." People for the American Way, a liberal organization that has fought a guerrilla campaign against the religious right, produced a videotape with a telling sequence in which the preacher claims to have diverted Hurricane Gloria...