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...over these matters. At one point, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte, a House conferee, eased the tension by donning a pair of comic eyeglasses. The impasse was broken by what some labeled a Democratic ploy. House negotiators agreed to drop the water projects, thus putting pressure on the Republicans to abandon contra funding. The Republicans finally relented; contra aid was cut off at least until next February, when a new vote can be taken if the President certifies that Nicaragua is still trying to subvert its neighbors in Central America. As for the Star Wars proposal, the Pentagon was permitted...
...only way for peace is an emphatic and unapologetic declaration by the British Government that they will defend the Ulstermen's right of self-determination forever. Americans may find it hard to believe, but in the mainland that is a more difficult case to sell than that Britain should abandon this dependent and warring colony to its own bloodbath. But Mrs. Thatcher should have the courage to say it and mean it for the first time since she came to office, instead of treating the problem as an infuriating irritant which might eventually go away. For its part, the Republic...
Only hours earlier, Pope John Paul II had issued one of his strongest condemnations ever of organized crime. Visiting the southern Italian village of Paola, he called upon listeners to break "the tragic chain of vendettas" and abandon the Mafia's code of silence, "which binds so many people in a type of squalid complicity dictated by fear...
...once suggested they put a sign up over the [IRS] office there saying Abandon the Bill of Rights, all you who enter here', because they have a different set of guarantees in that agency...we're now moving to where we'll have to say that the religion of the people is the religion of internal Revenue Service...
Starting in the 1960s, corporate America went on a binge of conglomerate building. Companies pursued mergers and acquisitions with abandon, creating business empires that often manufactured hundreds of diverse products, from bread to computers. Many companies have begun to doubt the theory that management expertise in one field means success in another. Such huge combines as ITT, Gulf & Western and RCA have been selling holdings to streamline operations. Last week, in one of the biggest divestitures to date, R.J. Reynolds Industries, the second-largest U.S. cigarette manufacturer, took a back-to-basics step by selling its energy businesses to Phillips...