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...year and to make difficult new cuts in domestic spending. Most Senate Republicans feel that tangling with tax reform is less important than tackling the budget; as Dole well knows, addressing that mess requires military cuts and tax increases that will raise Reagan's ire. How Dole handles his task as ringmaster of this cantankerous session could determine whether the Republicans hold the Senate this fall and whether he can achieve the statesmanlike stature necessary for a credible candidacy...
...France seems set to begin a historic experiment in power sharing. It is up to Mitterrand to choose within 20 days a Premier who reflects the new right-of-center majority. Since his Socialists ran better than anticipated, the President has a stronger position, but his task will still be difficult. Had the conservatives scored the resounding victory that had been predicted, Mitterrand would have had little choice but to name as Premier Jacques Chirac, 53, the mayor of Paris and the energetic leader of the R.P.R., the largest opposition party. Chirac had made it clear that if he were...
...Defining the Comptroller General's role is a narrow task with wide importance as the Supreme Court considers Gramm-Rudman...
...prospective immigrants with the antibody blood test, which in itself does not prove that an individual has the disease. The ruling, which could take effect this summer if approved, would probably be generally acceptable to the gay community. Said Ron Najman, media director for the Gay and Lesbian Task Force in New York City: "It is hard to argue against denying entry to someone with an obvious case of AIDS." POLITICS The Chairman For President...
...crane from the living room of his Manhattan townhouse, had its 12,000 parts cleaned and examined with a degree of care worthy of Air Force One. Its mahogany case was given coat after coat of high-gloss finish and hand-rubbed with fine steel wool, a laborious task that took 18 hours. It was then packed in space-age material resistant to heat and weather, loaded aboard a 747 early in April and shipped as a diplomatic pouch to Moscow. In the week before the concert, it was tuned and retuned so that it would be at its peak...