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Despite the defeat of the Nunn amendment, the Administration could not claim total success when the Senate finally passed, 82-6, the defense budget at 3:57 a.m. Thursday. Reagan had requested $313 billion in military funds, which would have been a 13% annual increase after inflation; the Senate authorized expenditures of $299 billion (a 7.8% increase), but the House has approved a budget of only $292 billion. Both chambers rejected money for the development of nerve gas, but approved funding for almost every other major weapons system...
Little more than three weeks after the installation of newly elected President José Napoleón Duarte, El Salvador is once again reverberating with the sounds of combat. But this time they are not the sounds of defeat. The Morazan operation, part of an 8,000-man nationwide counterinsurgency sweep that also covered the departments of San Miguel, Cabañas, Usulután and Chalatenango, was the first assault since a military shake-up sent two officers to posts overseas shortly before Duarte's inauguration. Another auspicious sign for Duarte came when a Salvadoran judge sentenced five...
Bombeck took the ERA defeat hard, and still does. She has little respect for younger women who opposed the amendment. "The young ones are coming up with an attitude that says we got it all," she reflects. "The older women know we don't. My mother's generation still remembers when women didn't think it was respectable to drive alone...
...second defeat seems not to trouble her. In 1980 she sold a television series called Maggie, based on one of Bombeck's typical housewives, to ABC. Living in a Los Angeles apartment during the week, Bombeck got up at 5 each morning to write her column and by 9 was at a desk at Universal City Studios writing TV scripts. Bombeck never quite learned to love speaking show biz-"That line doesn't work for me, sweetie" and "Trust me"-and Maggie sank without a trace after eight episodes. The lines were funny but somehow the show wasn...
Hispanic congressmen led opposition to the Simpson-Mazzoli bill and nearly managed to defeat the four-year-old legislation. The measure passed by only a tenuous five-vote margin--one which could have been closed or broadened by the eight representatives who did not vote. In the Senate, which includes not a single Hispanic, the bill passed by a wider margin...