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Night Watch and Peter Denial in Mark Insight
A meditation on Mark 14 72 interpreting cockcrow as Jesus predicting Peter's denials. The passage notes Peter’s memory of Jesus words and his weeping after realizing his lapse in courage as Mark draws on Peter's preaching.
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Haig takes charge as secretary of state contender rises
Haig presses to set foreign policy tone for Reagan era. He dismissed transition staff overstepping lines and signals a take charge approach akin to Dulles. The move follows conflicts with past transition statements on human rights Taiwan policy and U S stance in Latin America.
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Alexander Haig
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Ed Muskie
Foreign Policy Task Force
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el Salvador
Latin America
Far East
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Taiwan
Republican Party
Ronald Reagan
Eisenhower
White House
Henry Kissinger
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Brzezinski
Wealth And Poverty Awakens Market Reform Debate
An analysis notes that the Reagan era may reshapes federal policy through the Stockman driven push to cut budgets and taxes while promoting George Gilder’s Wealth and Poverty. It argues capital gains taxes and inflation alter true investment returns and questions Congress's readiness to read and act.
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David Stockman
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George Gilder
John Kenneth Galbraith
Mr. Galbraith
Mr. Gilder
Gilder
Stockman
Congress
Steiger
Carter
Marin Feldstein
National Bureau of Economic Research
Kennedy
A Good Word For Brzezinski
A columnist defends Zbigniew Brzezinski against Carter era critics. The piece praises his steadiness amid parting blasts from Muskie and Pell, notes his stance on document access, and urges Reagan to consider Brzezinski’s restrained, steady influence on foreign policy.
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Carter
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Don McHenry
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U.N
Department
Brzezinski
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Mr. Carter
Claiborne Pell
Pell
Reagan
Health care in the United States improving says survey
A Department of Health and Human Services survey finds most health metrics improving, contradicting claims of a national health care crisis. Life expectancy at birth reached 73.3 years, infant mortality declined to 15.5 per 1000, and physician supply rose to 174 per 100,000 with projected growth to 239 by 1990. Some concerns persist for ages 15 to 24.
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United States
Department of Health and Human Services
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