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Reagan's barnstorming for a fundamental change in taxation has helped him regain the momentum his Administration seemed to have lost earlier this year. His pollster, Richard Wirthlin, recorded a 71% approval rating for the President's tax-reform speech (the highest since his February 1981 call for large budget and tax cuts), and a New York Times/CBS News poll reported last week that his approval rating had gone up three points since...
...among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser Arafat would not assist beleaguered Arafat followers in the camps. Accordingly, Berri ordered 5,000 of his militiamen, aided by a predominantly Shi'ite brigade...
...Palestinians. Nobody seemed to know exactly what started the latest confrontation, but the significance was obvious: the Lebanese Shi'ites, the largest population group in the country, remember the steely grip the P.L.O. maintained over southern Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion, and are determined that the Palestinians never regain their power...
...launching a high-visibility crusade for tax reform, Reagan hopes to regain his political momentum and divert attention from a series of setbacks that began with his trip to the grave sites of Nazi soldiers at Bitburg. Congress is proving increasingly contrary: the House last week roundly rejected his compromise budget plan, restoring Social Security increases and cutting defense. Says one top aide: "If we didn't have a tax-reform project, we'd need to create one, just to get the President out on the offensive...
...time for the Lampoon truly to hold the Ibis sacred. No matter how warped one's sense of humor, a bird's freedom is no joke. Mr. Threskiornis should be set free at once. It is time that he regain his noble birthright and once again be free to stretch his wings and test the Cambridge skies...