Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday, however, Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar proposed an amendment to the Republican budget that would cancel a threeyear, $23.3 billion reduction in planned Medicare spending* and take the money instead out of defense outlays. To the astonishment of leaders of both parties, the House passed the amendment, 227 to 196; some 64 Republicans, apparently worried about the effect of Medicare cuts on their re-election campaigns, voted for it. That destroyed the coalition behind the Republican plan; many conservatives would no longer support the proposal with the amendment, and it lost 235 to 192. But no other working coalition...
...currently covered by a $4.5 billion defense contingency fund. The QE2 alone is costing the British government $225,000 a day to operate, while the Uganda and the Canberra are running about $175,000 apiece. Cunard lost $3.5 million in revenues from the Mediterranean cruise it was forced to cancel but, like the other ship owners, expects to be fully compensated for whatever losses it incurs. Says an aide to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "This has been very good for the merchant navy. They haven't had it so good for years...
...political interests are inevitably linked to the U.S. Says one optimistic analyst: "We should not take this lightly, but in six months it will be forgotten." One example of the attitude at work: Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo, even though he has condemned U.S. support for Britain, did not cancel his state visit to Washington this week...
...that would be different. He would have to dissociate himself from that. But he has constantly stressed that his visit is a pastoral visit," which by Vatican thinking means that the Pope could tour England without appearing to choose sides between the Argentines and British. Indeed, to cancel the trip might imply that Britain is in the wrong and thus exacerbate antipapal feelings there. Militant Protestants have already marched in the streets of several British cities to protest the expected visit. While a go decision would naturally not sit well with Argentina, the planning has reached such an advanced state...
...SURELY one of the most ironic footnotes to history. In his inagural in 1945, leftist Juan Jose Arevalo, the first popularly elected President of Guatemala., movingly cited Franklin Roosevelt. "He taught us," said Arevalo, "that there is no need to cancel the concept of freedom is the democratic system in order to breathe into it a socialist spirit...