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...right, most of whom are al ready committed to Reagan or Congress man Philip Crane, Connally's positions are generally conservative. He favors the SALT II treaty only if considerable new money is allocated for cruise missiles and other weapons, advocates a federal tax cut of $50 billion to $100 billion, opposes national health insurance, pushes strongly for nuclear power and the loosening of pollution laws to allow more use of coal, favors deregulation of oil with a provision that profits be plowed back to in crease production, and opposes gun control. His coup in luring right-wing Fund Raiser...
...since Washington suspects the Israelis are continuing to use American-supplied equipment in violation of a previous agreement with the U.S. But the State Department was not particularly anxious to pursue that point just now. A spokesman emphasized that the Administration was not contemplating a reduction in the $2.7 billion in military aid already committed to Israel as a way to browbeat Jerusalem into ceasing its artillery attacks in Lebanon. Said one State Department official: "We don't want to be the ones to carry an arms reduction proposal up to Capitol Hill...
That network now includes such things as student exchanges and some ten official protocols covering everything from the sale of a U.S. telecommunications system to the exchange of meteorological information. Mondale also announced that the U.S. will make available to China Export-Import Bank loans of $2 billion over the next five years...
...catch quarks in that playful activity, four separate teams of experimenters-involving 300 scientists from eight countries, including the U.S.-turned to West Germany's new PETRA colliding beam accelerator in Hamburg. The powerful machine accelerates electrons to energies of 15 billion electron volts and sends them barreling head-on into their antimatter opposites, particles called positrons, coming at high speed from the opposite direction. In the past, when such experiments have been tried with other accelerators operating at lower energies, the debris from the electron-positron collisions has consisted of only two "jets," or streams, of hadrons...
Savings inflows at the nation's 5,000 federally regulated savings and loan associations dropped to $1.5 billion in July, down from $2.8 billion a year ago. The state-chartered mutual savings banks have lost more than $2 billion in deposits since January, $725 million just in July...