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...vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option to later overrule the Executive. The committee protested that it had ordered Watt not to cancel the sale but only to delay it. Watt said even that action was unconstitutional...
...keep the Philippine regime at arm's length without compromising U.S. strategic interests. The Administration quickly rejected calls to send a delegation to Aquino's funeral. Instead, officials decided that the "proper" representative was Michael Armacost, the U.S. Ambassador in Manila. Likewise, Reagan decided not to cancel his November visit too hastily. Such a move, officials argued, would amount to prejudging Marcos. Washington, however, did put considerable pressure on the Philippine President to appoint an independent committee to investigate the murder and "swiftly and vigorously track down the perpetrators of this political assassination .. . and punish them...
Begin's decision to cancel his trip puzzled Israelis and Americans alike. For months he has reportedly been depressed by the apparent failure of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as well as by the death last November of his wife of 43 years. His grief worsened five weeks ago when his trusted friend Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich died suddenly. As an aide put it, "If you're not in the mood to sing, can you sing...
...contract his Menudo days are numbered. "When their voices change, that changes the sound of the music and that changes everything," explains Díaz. Six earlier members have been sloughed off, and two of the current personnel, Johnny Lozada (a member since 1980) and Miguel Cancel (1981), won't be around much longer. The others are Charlie Rivera, who turned 14 last Monday, and Ray Reyes, 13, who just this year was transformed from a Menudo fan into the real thing...
...their displeasure by closing highways in the Syrian-controlled areas of northern and eastern Lebanon. The Syrians have hinted that they might close the Syrian-Lebanese border indefinitely. The newspaper of the ruling Baath Party spoke of "a crushing civil war that would splinter Lebanon's unity and cancel its existence as a country...