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...Congress and perhaps the voters. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, a consistent ally of the President's and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had urged Reagan to propose a new tack. He was clearly discouraged by the result. "I think the President needs to do more," he said afterward. "I had hoped the President would take this occasion for an extraordinary message to the world." Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, a respected voice on African policy, seemed to speak for many fellow Republicans. "I was deeply disappointed with the President's speech," she said. "It gave...
Ballard, in his call to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday would be devoted to deep penetration of the liner with Jason Jr. Afterward, the explorers plan to head for home...
...helped trigger the riot. Inmates who saw accounts of the report, city officials claimed, concluded that they would be set free if they destroyed the prison. Some convicts actually packed their belongings in plastic garbage bags before the buildings were set afire. A number of prisoners did escape Lorton afterward, but not to freedom. Nearly 500 of the 1,300 inmates involved were shipped to other area jails...
...statue and ourselves. "This country needs these things every ten years or so," said one spectator. Despite the gimcrackery, this was a people's holiday; the fireworks high above the harbor were the dazzling signature of a democratic free-for-all, overwhelming the staginess that came before and afterward. The Fourth of July weekend revealed, once again, the American spirit of freedom--and the freedom to be in high spirits, as the album of enduring images on the following pages will testify...
...seat will guarantee a legislator the chance to sit through hours of grueling haggles in a smoke-choked committee room, and to be besieged mercilessly by hordes of lobbyists afterward. But the upside is irresistible: an opportunity to make history by deciding the details of a bill that will touch the wallet of just about every citizen. And so the most coveted ticket in Washington has become a seat on the House-Senate conference committee that will meet, probably the week of July 14, to put in final shape a radical overhaul of federal tax law. With billions riding even...