Word: committeee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Patricia McGovern (D-Lawrence), who will oversee the Senate's budget-cutting drive, has already said new taxes are inevitable.
The memo, sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to 900 male undergraduates, was cleverly designed to play upon the public outrage generated by the brutal murders of six Jesuit priests last week by right-wing death squads in El Salvador.
Bush's threat was undermined a day later by his own Defense Department. Pentagon Comptroller Sean O'Keefe told the Senate Armed Services Committee that an $8.1 billion cut in defense would result in a 10% loss in U.S. combat readiness, an unacceptable political risk.
Since the Tiananmen crackdown in June, many China watchers had been convinced that Deng would retain his last post for a while longer to preserve his legacy of economic growth as well as to ensure the succession of his newly anointed heir, Jiang Zemin, a former Shanghai mayor who was...
Even some of last week's moves were ambiguous. The mass resignation of the 44-member Cabinet was not so significant as it was dramatic, since the Cabinet had been a rubber stamp. Its dismissal, however, did serve to rid Krenz of Premier Willi Stoph, a Honecker loyalist. The dissolution...