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...part because some believed there was no point in helping Democrats to produce a supposedly balanced budget that the Democrats could then brag about during the campaign. But the Republicans made the confusion total by slipping through a motion-passed after many Democrats had left the chamber-instructing the House delegates to a new conference to hold out for exactly the increase in military spending that had just been rejected...
...latest influx are developing in Cuban-American areas. As the U.S. enters an economic recession, the new load on schools, local services and taxes is not welcome. A few protest rallies have already been held in South Florida. Asks Miami Builder Hank Green, incoming president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce: "Who takes them in? Who feeds them? I told my family last night, be prepared to be bilingual or to leave...
...Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire) were cast not in disapproval of Muskie but as protests against Carter's foreign policy. One Senator followed another in praising Muskie and he, in turn, brought them to their feet with an emotional farewell to the chamber in which he had served for the past 22 years. Said Muskie: "I look forward to a continuation of this relationship on a more adversary basis, perhaps." (His successor for the 2½ years that remain in his term is George Mitchell, 46, who was long active in Maine Democratic...
Muskie also had superb political credentials. He was both a staunch supporter of a President who values loyalty highly, and a respected member of the chamber that must confirm him. Muskie's confirmation hearings are unlikely to turn into a Senate inquisition of the Administration's foreign policy...
...city's housing crisis began in the mid-'60s, when rents began to escalate so high residents could not pay. As a result, the city government reluctantly passed rent controls. "There were barefoot kids standing on my desk in the council chamber," former Mayor Thomas W. Danehy recalls. "They were smoking cigarettes with substances other than tobacco," he adds...