Word: 98th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Thursday's announcement, made in Andropov's name on the 98th day since his disappearance from public view on Aug. 18, essentially formalized earlier threats. The Soviets were breaking off, at least for a while, the tenuous two-year dialogue between the superpowers aimed at limiting the spread of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The actual walkout from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks had occurred the previous day at a 25-minute meeting in Geneva between Chief Soviet Arms Negotiator Yuli Kvitsinsky and his U.S. counterpart, Paul Nitze. Kvitsinsky had put the mildest face possible...
...situation was distressingly familiar. The 98th Congress had dithered for months over its most basic responsibility: funding the vast operations of the Federal Government. Now it was in a frantic haste to adjourn. In a sudden spasm of activity, it fell all too short of meeting its self-imposed spending and revenue limits. Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pronounced a scathing verdict on the legislators' performance. "As we leave Washington," he predicted, "word of our impotence will precede us. We have put special interests on notice that we can be pushed around...
...would not burn away the morning fog and the winds would not chase away the low-hanging clouds over Cape Canaveral, Mission Control in Houston sent up the gloomy message: rather than attempt a first-ever shuttle landing at Kennedy, Challenger would put down on its next orbit (its 98th) on the dried-out lake bed in the Mojave Desert where shuttles have come home from space on five previous occasions. True to the Right Stuff test-pilot tradition from which he hails, Navy Captain Robert Crippen, 45, Challenger's commander and the only space veteran on board, acknowledged...
...surface, the mood ranged from cozy to playful as members of the 98th Congress convened to be sworn in last week. In the Senate, New Right Curmudgeon Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whose filibusters made him a renegade late last year, embraced two of his colleagues at once, while newly elected Virginia Republican Paul Trible, 36, sat down for a deferential chat with sixth-term Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 81. In the House, children crawled around the floor and squalled lustily as their parents took the oath of office. Bluegrass music twanged through the Rayburn Office Building, where Freshman Democrat...
...February 1982, the CBI offered $350 million in short-term cash aid and a variety of long-term trade and tariff benefits for the struggling ministates of Central America and the Caribbean. Approved by the House and the Senate Finance Committee, the plan must be presented anew to the 98th Congress, although the short-term aid money has already been disbursed...