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...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...
Next week the 98th Congress, which will be more liberal and Democratic than the one that staggered offstage last week, will convene. With 84 new members, it will have to get organized all over again. Some time in January, Reagan will send it his budget plan for fiscal 1984, with projections of another huge deficit, this one exceeding $150 billion. The President will be confronted with growing skepticism about his economic nostrums. Members are not likely to take gracefully such naive proposals for confronting unemployment as the one Reagan tossed out at a press conference last week: that there would...
...Government. (One includes a proposed pay raise for Congressmen that is unlikely to survive.) The House has passed eight and may approve four more before Christmas. The Senate has completed only three and is likely to pass only four more. Thus, despite all the fuss and expense, the 98th Congress may have to go through much of the same legislative maze all over again in January. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington