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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug smuggling by air and sea within 45 days. The Air Force and Navy would "locate, pursue and seize" all vessels carrying drugs and "arrest their crews." The military would also provide blanket radar coverage of the entire southern border to detect nighttime flights of contraband. Presto. Pass a bill. Problem solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Mission Impossible: Seal the Border in 45 Days | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...There's enough time. If the House sends us a trade bill and says `Take it or leave it,' I think we'll take it," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Vetoes Trade Bill | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

Wright, speaking with reporters before Reagan acted, said that if Democrats can't override Reagan's veto, they would push "the strongest, most effective trade bill that you can, but that will take time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Vetoes Trade Bill | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...particular, Reagan objected to the plant-closing requirement, as well as provisions restricting the export of Alaskan oil. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the president would sign a new bill that deleted both sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Vetoes Trade Bill | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...Byrd warned that it will be "extremely difficult" for a new bill to wend its way through the chamber's complex procedures before its Oct. 8 adjournment. "Anybody who thinks that can be done in the Senate is simply naive," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Vetoes Trade Bill | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

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