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...spirit." So optimistic was he about the prospects for friendship and trade that in one ad lib he referred to the People's Republic as "socalled Communist China," a remarkably benign description coming from a once unrelenting cold warrior who used to call the P.R.C. "Red China." The turnabout is perhaps more Reagan's than China's, but there was little doubt that the governments of both nations have, in Reagan's words, "reached a new level of understanding...
...turnabout was startling. A mere four weeks ago, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, self-assured and articulate, fended off hostile questions from Democratic Senators at his confirmation hearings and emerged confident that he would quickly become Attorney General of the U.S. But last week a Justice Department investigation into his tangled finances was under way, the press was nipping at his heels, and Meese, first bewildered and then combative, was asking that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate "the misrepresentations and baseless charges" against him. The probe could take months, delaying and possibly dooming his confirmation...
...Meese's role in the controversial 1982 Justice Department decision to reverse more than a decade of federal antidiscrimination policy and permit Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., to gain tax-exempt status, although the private school had a policy of racial segregation. In the outcry after the turnabout, Reagan claimed unpersuasively that he had merely wanted to make certain that the Internal Revenue Service had the right to withdraw the tax exemption-a power that few legal scholars had ever doubted. Last week Meese blandly denied urging the Justice Department to change its antidiscrimination position and contended that...
...back as the turn of the century, the Russian space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote about large spinning habitats in space. But until recently any such idea was regarded as no more than pie in the sky by the upper reaches of the Reagan Administration. The turnabout came in December, when NASA Administrator James Beggs met with the President at the White House. The space chief emerged from that close encounter, in the words of one official, as if he "were orbiting on cloud nine...
...virtual admission of guilt. Then the two other accused employees were tried and acquitted. That turnabout last month prompted the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 83,650) to attack the city's news organs, including itself; it placed special blame on the dominant daily Globe (circ. 515,000). Said Phoenix Publisher Stephen Mindich: "It is a clear example of irresponsibility, and it creates distrust among the public." Globe Editor Winship replies, "It was an important, live story. We were evenhanded then, and we are re-examining...