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...supply-side tax cuts to reduce the deficit, he is flirting with the idea of making them effective six months earlier. Republican leaders in the House and Senate ranged from unenthusiastic to angry about the President's intransigence. If Reagan holds firm, he may be headed for the bloodiest fight of his presidency...
...bloodiest clash erupted in Lubin when a squad of policemen were confronted by enraged demonstrators, who allegedly hurled rocks and gasoline bombs. After firing blanks as a warning, the police unleashed a volley of lead. Officials reported two deaths, although some local witnesses put the total at five...
...optimism was guarded, the outcome far from certain. After one of the bloodiest weeks since the Israeli siege of Beirut began nearly two months ago, there were hopeful signs late last week that a diplomatic solution to the Lebanese crisis might yet be found. The quest for peace was being led by U.S. Special Middle East Envoy Philip Habib, who shuttled to Jerusalem and Beirut after a tour of Arab capitals and talks with Jordan's King Hussein in London. Said a top U.S. official: "His trip moved us ahead. We got some specific commitments, enough to make things...
...Falklanders have suddenly been invaded by it, and while they have shown an ability to adjust to their revisions, it is impossible to tell how much trepidation remains. As for the British troops, they are merely passing through town on the way to what threatens to be the bloodiest theater of an already too bloody conflict. When they depart, the people and animals of Port San Carlos will undoubtedly resume their quiet routines, but nothing will ever again be the same. Carol Miller, a former Port San Carlos resident now living in England, who guided the British military in their...
That was the beginning of the end for the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas García, which was widely considered to be one of the bloodiest and most corrupt regimes in all of Latin America. Lucas García's abrupt exit also meant that his hand-picked successor, General Angél Anibal Guevara, who was elected to the presidency on March 7 amid widespread charges of fraud, would not be taking over next July as planned...