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...with Secretary of State James Baker's argument that immediate action on the loan guarantees would anger Israel's Arab neighbors and endanger the October Middle East peace conference. Defying the Administration's request for a 120-day delay, however, Jewish lobbying groups and some of their allies on Capitol Hill vowed to push for quick congressional approval...
...carrot or a stick abroad, the result is almost always a domestic brawl. "There are simply too many voices and competing interests on our side to deliver a clear, coherent, timely message," says Paula Stern, a former head of the U.S. International $ Trade Commission. A fire-breathing anticommunist on Capitol Hill may want to starve America's enemies into submission, but a farm-state legislator would prefer to sell them his constituents' grain...
CHOPPING BLOCK. Angry because some songs were cut from the U.S. versions of previous albums, the Beatles posed for Yesterday and Today in butcher's smocks with pieces of meat. Capitol Records pasted a different photo over the cover...
...think of records as different chapters in an incredibly long and disjointed novel," says Thompson, whose superb new Rumor and Sigh (Capitol) displays both his carbolic lyricism and his stunning guitar virtuosity. Whitley's peak-heat debut album, Living with the Law (Columbia), comes out of a period of personal turmoil and heartbreak, including the dissolution of his marriage, about which he says, "It was a difficult time. Sort of impossible. I've always needed to write. ((But)) there is a price you pay for whatever goes on. I feel that I've paid something. You get scars from whatever...
...death of the river may help change all that. The National Transportation Safety Board has long argued for stronger, safer cars for carrying so-called environmentally sensitive chemicals, and the idea has gained support on Capitol Hill, where the Federal Railroad Safety Act is up for revision. Scientists say it may be 10 years before the Sacramento River has fully recovered. Perhaps by then tanker cars will be safe enough to guarantee that a disaster like last week's can not happen again...