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Meese and Baker headed next to Capitol Hill, where they showed their list to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, and then to Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., who warned of a Senate fight over Bork. At a Washington hotel Wednesday morning, White House Counsel Arthur B. Culvahouse interrogated Bork over coffee to satisfy himself that the potential nominee had no awkward club memberships, dubious financial dealings or medical problems...
...hasn't seen an R-rated movie ((without his parents))? What was supposed to be a warning has turned into a marketing tool." Teens who stay up past 8 p.m. can watch R-rated films on pay cable, and at midnight, Manhattan minors can watch Robin Byrd, the G- stringed host and self-described "X-rated Ed Sullivan" of Manhattan's lube tube. "My show is for adults," she says. "If children watch it, it's because parents aren't doing their job." So it would seem. In 1985 Manhattan Cable (a subsidiary of Time Inc.) offered...
...budget without boosting the deficit or gutting the military, the newly united Democrats came unglued. As haggling over a 1988 budget resolution split the House and Senate Democrats, Congress came to a near standstill for almost six weeks. The Washington Post derided the "Flubbocrats," and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, stymied on other fronts, threatened to delay the August recess if his dilatory colleagues did not buckle down...
...humdrum summit in Venice and limping from the continuing Iran-contra revelations, the President was looking for a quick score. So Reagan did what he does best: he took to the airwaves and attacked the old "tax and tax, spend and spend" ways of the Democrats. The assault pushed Byrd and House Speaker Jim Wright into hurried meetings with their deadlocked committees, and by week's end the Democrats had agreed on a $1 trillion spending plan for next year, including a $19.3 billion tax increase that Reagan vows he would veto...
...risks. A broad array of critics has come out opposed. Henry Kissinger, despite his sensitivities to Soviet aggrandizement, warned of the implications of a U.S. tilt toward Iraq in its 6 1/2-year war with Iran. Jeane Kirkpatrick advised the Administration to go slow. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, called Reagan's plan "half baked, poorly developed." Said his Republican counterpart, Bob Dole of Kansas: "I don't think anyone knows quite what the policy is." Even ultraconservative Republican Senator Jesse Helms remarked that Congress needed "more answers" from the Administration before approving the reflagging plan...