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Congress may curb the perks of former U.S. Presidents...
...time of budget whittling, this kind of outlay irks Democratic Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida and 15 colleagues who are co-sponsoring legislation to curb benefits for ex-Presidents and their families. Over the past three decades, the cost to taxpayers for what Chiles dubs "the imperial former presidency" has quietly spiraled from $64,000 to $27 million this fiscal year. The Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers...
East-West trade provided less divergence than expected-though it is likely to lead to sharp disputes at Williamsburg if President Ronald Reagan persists in trying to force Western Europe to curb trade with the East bloc for political reasons. Louis Kawan, the European Commission's director for foreign affairs, reported that European governments agreed that nothing should be done to reinforce the military capacity of the Soviet Union. At the same time, he pointed out that the European Community conducts 60% of the industrialized world's East-West commerce and that such trade "provides stability for European...
...alleged squabble over the visa may stem from the Reagan Administration's recent attempts to curb what it has called increasing Communist infiltration in Latin America. In a speech before Congress on Wednesday. Reagan termed the Sandinist government a "new dictatorship...
...huge guzzler, I thought: He'll never be able to maneuver it out of here. He did, though. But the engine was sputtering, and as we hit a main thoroughfare, it quit on him altogether. I told him that if he would guide the car to the curb, I would push from the rear. But he hopped out, held one hand on the steering wheel and pushed with all his might. This is a man with a pacemaker; at his age, what was he thinking of? Explained Pepper: 'I thought you needed help...