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...duty personnel, and we are -- the Army's going from 18 active to 12 active divisions -- I don't need as many reservists and Guardsmen to back them up." Some of the duties the Guard now performs could be transferred to regular units, a prospect that raised alarms on Capitol Hill. Over Cheney's objections, the House voted two weeks ago to add $650 million to the $18 billion the Pentagon had requested for the Guard and reserves in 1992. It also voted to trim a planned cutback in Guard and reserve strength from...
...despite Harvard's apparent triumph, the Education Department report obtained by the press, civil rights group and top-ranking officials on Capitol Hill prompted Further criticism above and beyond the issue of Asian-American admissions. Certain details of the government's findings appeared to contradict some assertions made by the admissions office throughout the last several decades...
...criticism stretched beyond Cambridge as well, coming from as high up as Capitol Hill. In December, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kansas) wrote a letter to the Secretary of Education urging that he take on an investigation of legacy policies, which he said enforced a "caste system" in higher education...
Some believe that the First Amendment may be endangered as well. Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which operates nearly 900 clinics in 49 states, called the decision to halt abortion counseling "an unimaginable blow to free speech." From Capitol Hill came rumblings that liberty of expression had been, as Democratic Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon put it, "thrown into the trash can." But the toughest counterpunch was landed by Blackmun, who charged the court with "viewpoint- based suppression of speech...
Bush's victory on Capitol Hill last week was the result of some % uncharacteristically deft political maneuvering on the domestic front. He has succeeded in splintering both textile and environmental lobbies, while mollifying fence-sitting Democrats such as Richard Gephardt by assuring them that the issues of environment, rules of origin covering foreign investors in Mexico, and adjustment programs for displaced workers will be addressed before any agreement is signed. Bush also cornered the Democrats into choosing between two important constituencies, labor and Hispanics. Just as Bush hoped, the Democratic National Committee recently denounced fast-track authorization, which put them...