Word: cancels
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...made the statement while on a visit to Australia, was trying to ensure a warm welcome at his next port of call, New Zealand, where the government has locked horns with Washington over its own ban on nuclear-armed ships. Either way, the decision to delay rather than cancel suggests that both sides will seek a way to resolve the issue...
...everywhere. And all states must raise their minimum drinking age to 21 by 1987 or risk losing federal highway funds. Even the insurance industry is now effectively part of the lobby against drinking and driving. Like many other groups, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council in Denver had to cancel a party this year because no insurance was available if beer was sold to raise funds. "High court awards have scared underwriters to death," says Gene Glascock of the Colorado state division of insurance. One Denver eatery had its rates raised from $18,000 to $58,000 a year...
Reagan's chances of winning the budget struggle have not been enhanced by last week's reverses. The uproar over Bitburg seems to be perceptibly, if perhaps temporarily, lowering the President's popularity. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week, 52% of respondents wished Reagan would cancel his visit to the Bitburg cemetery, which contains the graves of 2,000 German soldiers, most of them killed during World War II, including 49 members of the Waffen SS, the combat branch of Hitler's murderous elite guard. Reagan's overall job-approval rating in the same poll dropped...
When the President returns to Washington this week from his Easter break, his plans may once again be reconsidered. Aides say that he might add a visit to a German synagogue "to balance" his itinerary, or cancel the cemetery stop. Nonetheless, the unsettling series of decisions and statements emanating from the White House will make it difficult for Reagan to assuage the indignation he has aroused...
Madrid police were not discounting the possibility that the blast was the work of a group opposed to U.S. or North Atlantic Treaty Organization policies. Such groups have threatened to stage a demonstration to urge the Spanish government to cancel President Reagan's planned visit to Spain next month...