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Term limitation is not a new idea. The Continental Congress precluded members from serving more than three years in any six-year period. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower advocated a cutoff, as did the 1988 Republican Party platform...
Bush ordered an immediate cutoff of the U.S. aid program for Haiti, which was to provide $85 million in 1991 and $90 million in 1992. The European Community followed suit, suspending a $148 million aid package, and France, . Japan and Canada halted bilateral programs totaling about $77 million...
...outside world, the tide was beginning to turn. By Tuesday morning the Western powers had got their act together and unanimously, though separately, proclaimed a clear line: no normal relations with the Soviet Union until legitimate authority was restored, and a quick and indefinite cutoff of most of the economic aid that the U.S.S.R. desperately needs...
...officials insisted that the July 25 cutoff -- "Marker Day," not D- day, a State Department official helpfully explained -- was never intended to signal the immediate resumption of allied aerial strikes against Iraq. The arrival last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste...
...move that some say threatens to undermine undergraduate education at Harvard, the English Department announced recently that it has raised the grade cutoff for students applying to the honors concentration...