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...P.I.O. had been engaged since 1978 in the hopeless task of trying to improve the image of the Palestine Liberation Organization. It made no bones about being an arm of the P.L.O., which makes few bones about engaging in terrorism. Just last spring the P.L.O. decided to retain Abul Abbas on its executive committee, even though he masterminded the 1985 hijack of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, in which elderly American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered...
...private-sector participation. Commercial space firms, for example, were assured that federal agencies would buy their launch services. Companies across the country saw the new policy as an important symbolic move. "It's great news," said Bruce Jackson, a Houston space-engineering consultant. "It's a shot in the arm, and it will snowball." But without long-term funding, presidential promises mean little. Said Consultant Christopher Kraft, former head of the Johnson Space Center: "The proof of the pudding is, Where's the bucks...
...exactly five minutes later. Yale sophomore Lorni Fenton received the puck in front of the Harvard net in a goalmouth scramble. Fenton lifted the puck over White's arm to remove the goose...
...million patients a year, were attacked last week not only by abortion advocates but by civil liberties groups and a host of medical organizations, some of which filed suit against the Government. The regulations, charged Rachel Pine of the A.C.L.U., would "turn a public health program into an ideological arm of the present Administration. They are mandating that a physician not give a responsible answer to a patient...
...harbors or the many permutations of the Boland amendment, which blocked military aid to the contras, each vote sparked ugly, divisive battles. Last year's Iran- contra scandal has only added to the bitterness. In the past, Reagan was able to win over key swing votes in White House arm-twisting sessions. Last week, however, many undecided Congressmen refused even to meet with the President. "I told him I'm going to make this decision in the quietness of my own thought processes," said Wes Watkins, an Oklahoma Democrat. "I've got a 17- year-old son," Watkins told Reagan...