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That promising display of solidarity, however, was soon overshadowed by a blitz of controversial decisions and internal struggles. At a two-day session in Hunt Valley, Md., the new commission's conservative majority dominated the liberal members. By a 5-to-3 vote, the group decided to cancel an investigation of how cutbacks in student financial aid affected colleges where most students were black or Hispanic, and by a 6-to-2 vote, it came out against the Detroit police department's use of numerical quotas for the promotion of blacks to lieutenant...
...ultimatum, and he noted that Andropov had also made a new bargaining offer. The gist of it was that the U.S.S.R. was prepared to reduce the number of SS-20s targeted on Western Europe from 243 to "about 140," down from a previous offer of 162, if NATO would cancel its plans for new missiles altogether. In addition, the Soviets would stop adding to their arsenal of SS-20s in Asia, which currently numbers 117. Said...
...reduced from 243 to 75 in Europe and frozen at 90 in Asia; the U.S. would install only 75 cruise-missile launchers, with four missiles each, for a total of 300 warheads, and would cancel its plans to put Pershing II ballistic missiles in West Germany. Of the two new prospective American weapons, the Soviets were more worried about the Pershing Us, since they could reach targets in the U.S.S.R. much more quickly than could cruise missiles. Also, the Soviets have an abiding fear of German fingers anywhere near the nuclear trigger...
...claimed that Odierno talked freely about the Masselli killing when the two were inmates last year at New York's Riker's Island jail. According to Burns, Odierno got mad when Masselli, sitting beside him in a parked car, rejected a deal in which the Mob would cancel loans to the Massellis if the pair would pledge silence in the Donovan investigation. Burns said that when a device that looked like a tape recorder fell from Masselli, Odierno yelled, "My God, the [expletive] is wired. Shoot him, Philly." Buono, seated in back, did so, according to Burns...
...wake of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino's murder, pressure had mounted on Reagan to cancel his visit to Manila scheduled for November. The trip, it was argued, could be seen only as a gesture of support for the brutal Marcos regime and tacit absolution for Marcos and his cronies for their likely involvement in the Aquino slaying. When Reagan actually decided on Monday to forego his Manila jaunt, there was some short-lived rejoicing within the anti-Marcos camp both here and in the Philippines. Reagan, it seemed, had seen the light of reason on at least one issue...