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...made only a token effort to reduce the deficit in his next budget. In the two weeks following the elections, he and his advisers held nine meetings to map out fiscal 1984 budget proposals, which will be presented to Congress in refined form two months from now. The rough cut: $26 billion to be taken exclusively from non-defense spending, including $8 billion from Social Security benefits, leaving a deficit estimated at a minimum of $180 billion. Budget Director David Stockman said it could even rise as high as $195 billion unless changes are made. Several White House advisers last...
...ratification process. The son of a U.A.W. member, Bieber has been active in union politics since he dropped out of Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School in the mid-'40s. He will be the first U.A.W. president who was not a member of Walter P. Reuther's rough-and-tumble coterie that forged and consolidated the union back in the 1930s...
...especially gratifying for a people who spend so much time worrying about the quality of their collective character. Two years ago, the President's victory seemed to beckon every junior demagogue from his cave and crevice. Oh, the seething and panting of the NCPAC hit squads, the rough stuff of Jesse Helms. No more. Hardly a "right-wing kook," as they are dangerously dismissed, won national election last week. Neither, for that matter, did a left-wing kook. Wherever else the body politic has wandered lately, it seems now to wish to congregate at the center...
Thanks to Brian Sands's direction, the production moves along at good pace, rarely flagging at the occasional rough spots. Dunster Drama's Pippin is a lively show, and if Pippin himself isn't too much of a role model in today's preprofessional world, his is an entertaining story nonetheless...
...wooden dialogue: immobilized, he wears an unearthly look of relief, Ken Waht plays the macho easy-going Eric Estrada type of guy who seems to crop up in almost every cop and adventure show on T.V. he mumbles his way through his lines adequately, and when the going gets rough, he takes off his shirt to reveal his true assets...