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Cosmetic surgery has become a popular operation for sagging baby boomers (men and women) who can afford the bill...
...Navy was infuriated. "It was all done before we knew anything about it," said a senior Defense Department official. "It was an abhorrent exercise of legislative prerogative." Last spring the Navy persuaded Republican Congressman Robert Badham of California to offer an amendment to the 1988-89 defense authorization bill banning the use of funds to reimburse Dravo. "It was an extremely dangerous precedent," says Badham. "It gives a whole new dimension to bidding and contracting: If all else fails, go to the Congress...
...focused on Reagan's failure to push hard on such social issues as abortion and school prayer. The President's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court has stilled some, but not all, of the gripes about domestic policy; conservatives now grumble that Reagan is abandoning his "economic bill of rights" and promoting a leftish, catastrophic health-insurance scheme. But, says Paul Weyrich, head of the conservative group called the Free Congress Foundation, "the real feelings are on foreign policy issues...
After hearing impassioned pleas from General Fidel Ramos, the armed forces chief, and Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto, the President and her Cabinet last week agreed to sponsor a bill in Congress that would raise military salaries by 60%. Aquino also tried an old ploy: reaching for the halo of political sainthood. Playing on the meaning of corazon, she called herself the "heart of the republic" and said the rebels' aim "was clearly to kill the President and her family." Of Honasan's goals, she said, "Let not idealism be used to cover the darkest crimes and ambitions of men whose...
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