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...Senate-passed crime-control bill and "falsifying congressional records." (A House Democratic staffer resigned last year after he admitted altering the remarks of G.O.P. members in hearing transcripts.) The Democrats had drawn first blood last month, when O'Neill ordered House cameras to pan the empty chamber during Republicans' postsession speeches, which were staged primarily for media pickup. In retaliation, G.O.P. members assembled video clips of O'Neill's fast gaveling on the podium, but decided that using them in ads would violate the House rule against employing shots of the chamber for partisan purposes...
...French version of the course, introduced in the spring of 1982, goes beyond the basic vocabulary for working in a Francophone country. Students learn specific French business practices, like labor relations, and are prepared to take the French Chamber of Commerce exam, according to Senior Preceptor Judith G. Frommer, who teaches the course...
...party's first defeat in a national election since the rise of Juan Perón in 1946. By forging a coalition among Radicals, conservatives and blue-collar workers, Alfonsín captured 52% of the vote, and his party gained control of the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, in Congress. In the Senate, however, control was placed in the hands of seven wavering regional party Senators...
Grant's Tomb, as the euphoric scientists subsequently named the 1,500-year-old find, is the first unspoiled Mayan burial chamber to be unearthed in two decades.*The discovery contained 15 clay pots, well-preserved wall paintings and a skeleton of a male believed to be in his 30s. Researchers, who announced the find last week, expect the contents to shed fresh light on a shadowy period of the mysterious Mexican and Central American civilization that flourished in the jungle from about...
DIED. Walter Rauff, 77, one of the most infamous fugitive Nazi war criminals, who designed the "Black Raven" mobile gas-chamber vans that were used to exterminate perhaps 250,000 East Europeans, most of them Jews, in 1941-42; of lung cancer; in Santiago, Chile. A colonel in the SS, Rauff fled Europe after World War II and settled in 1958 in Chile where he lived in relative obscurity and comfort. Since 1963, Chile has rejected appeals from Israel, France and West Germany for Rauff's extradition to face murder charges...