Word: block
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...House Appropriations Committee is expected to take up the MX basing scheme this week. A subcommittee headed by New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo, a sharp MX critic, voted 7 to 6 to recommend spending $998 million to acquire five of the missiles. Addabbo will now fight to block those funds in the full committee. He argues that the $2.7 billion the Administration is seeking for further research and development shows how much technical work needs to be done on the MX before Congress funds its production. The committee seems virtually deadlocked on the issue. "I think it will be beat...
...United States has already hinted that it will fulfill the Australian prophecy. With the Common Market's refusal to end agricultural price supports, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture John Block has threatened to counter the Europeans' policy. "Something must be done. I'm not going to give you a specific indication of what action we're going to take," Block intimated darkly last Monday. And William Brock, the chief U.S. negotiator at Geneva, told the assembled ministers that the Reagan Administration would have a difficult time checking trade restraints in Congress...
...Maria basin is just 40 miles from the site of the 1969 disaster off Santa Barbara, where an oil well blew off a piece of the sea floor and coated miles of California beaches and thousands of sea birds with sticky crude. So far, environmentalists have not tried to block drilling activity at the new discovery site. Says John Zierold, chief lobbyist for the Sierra Club in California: "We have to await the results of some tests. We're not going to shoot from the hip on this...
...stonecutter immigrant from northern Italy, Bernardin was the only Catholic boy on the block in his home town of Columbia, S.C. Of necessity, childhood became a venture in grass-roots ecumenism. He recalls, "I used to go to the Bible school that the Baptist church sponsored, especially on the days when they gave out ice cream...
Perhaps, but to many of his supporters Lech Walesa, or "Leszek" as they affectionately call him, is still the man who has become inextricably linked with the word Solidarity. For three days, hundreds of supporters kept a vigil beneath the second-story window of his apartment block on the outskirts of Gdansk. Suddenly, late in the evening, an excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with...