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...undeniably the hottest race, 16-year-incumbent Lombardi squares off against Peter A. Vellucci, son of Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, in a clash between the two oldest political families in the East Cambridge neighborhood. The other candidates, Salvatore Gulla and Eugene Gobby, are both considered longshots...
...down, Reagan accepted the need to raise new revenues. This pitted him against some of his usually most ardent supporters, like Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, who argue the supply-side theory that only by reducing taxes can the economy expand. The dispute, said Kemp, was "a historic clash of ideas...
...sense, the clash between the Israelis and the P.L.O. seemed inevitable, given the implacable hatred and deep suspicion between the two old enemies and the nature of the stalemate in West Beirut. The Israelis, who had hoped for a quick victory over the redoubts of the P.L.O. in Lebanon, were impatient and angry. They did not believe that the P.L.O. leadership had yet accepted the fact it must leave Lebanon. They were furious at U.S. insistence that they must ease up on West Beirut at precisely the time when they thought sustained pressure on the P.L.O. was most needed...
...family," said Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who had likened the feud to a "progressive divorce," also tried to restore a modicum of household harmony. Said he: "In every good marriage, at times one talks about a divorce." After the transatlantic clash provoked by Washington's embargo on technology for the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe, both the U.S. and its allies assessed the damage, found it considerable and decided to downplay the disagreement...
...latest Iowa Beef clash grows out of a disagreement over a new union contract for the Dakota City headquarters plant, one of eleven slaughterhouses that the company operates in seven states. Union members turned down a four-year agreement that required a wage freeze with no cost of living adjustments and the introduction of a a two-tiered pay scale that would pay new slaughterers $2 less than the current hourly starting wage of $9.27. The company also demanded a contract clause that would allow it to reduce wages in the Dakota City plant if any other local...