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...through the U.S., the Middle East and the world for months to come, affecting matters ranging from Israeli Cabinet decisions to congressional votes on the American budget. In particular, Ronald Reagan comes out of the crisis enjoying a new lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong hawk they had so long feared. Reagan's image as a statesman was further burnished last week by Moscow's agreement to a summit conference between him and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to be held...
...outcry, Reagan admitted, has been the sharpest personal criticism he has received since the 1966 election in California when there was an attempt to portray him as anti-Semitic. "And I must say, the Jewish community of California rose to my support because they knew very much different and they knew of many things that I had done that revealed the lie of that. But this, yes, has been very painful, because no one has said oftener than I have that we must never forget and that the Holocaust must always be remembered with the knowledge that it must never...
...Grand Canyon that they had planned for this summer. Reason: the price of gasoline is suddenly spurting again. The Government reported last week that the cost of motor fuel rose 3.6% in March. That was the main reason for the .5% jump in the Consumer Price Index, its sharpest monthly increase since January 1984. In another report, the Oil and Gas Journal found that the average price of gasoline in the U.S. climbed 3 cents per gal. in March, to $1.15, which was 10 cents higher than it had been a year earlier...
...sharpest criticisms came from the panel's dissenting judge, J. Skelly Wright, who called his colleagues' interpretation of actual malice "a startling revision." If the jury verdict is upheld, Wright predicted, "the effect on freedom of expression will be incalculable. The message to the media will be unmistakable--steer clear of unpleasant news stories." The Post is expected to ask the full ten-member appeals court to hear the case...
...rest of the world. That view has long been obsolete, and events last week provided fresh and painful evidence of how closely American interests are tied to decisions made in other countries. On international money markets, nervous traders sent the formerly high-flying dollar into one of its sharpest and fastest tailspins ever. The plunge caused fears in some quarters that a protracted slide in the currency's value could be getting under...