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Jesse Helms and Joe Biden don't agree on much, but the Republican chairman and the ranking Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had similar messages for the German foreign minister this week. TIME has learned that in separate, private meetings in Washington with Joschka Fischer, Germany's top diplomat, both Helms and Biden warned that a major German oil company is negotiating to acquire huge oil deposits in Libya controlled by U.S. companies. Such a purchase, the senators cautioned, could harm U.S.-German relations by triggering sanctions under the Iran-Libya Sanctions...
...Result: Thursday, the House and Senate pass a budget resolution codifying - in a non-binding, general-principles kind of way - a $1.35 trillion tax cut and a discretionary-spending growth cap at 4.9 percent. Head Senate Democrat Tom Daschle claimed Wednesday that Bush "was dragged kicking and screaming" into the negotiated deal, but the White House's man on the scene, OMB chief Mitch Daniels, may have been closer to the truth...
There is plenty of blame to go around. But Garvey, who is a Democrat in a Republican administration and has what must be the most punishing job in Washington, tap-danced around any overt criticisms of the biggest offenders: the airlines that have overscheduled existing airports into gridlock (and have a history of discouraging the building of new airports); members of Congress who have contributed to the mess; and a 747-ful of government officials who for years have failed to get ahead of air traffic problems...
...made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well as in Japan (Kurosawa's Scandal). Later she was elected to several terms as a Liberal Democrat to Japan's parliament. Pretty dramatic, eh? No wonder her life story inspired a Tokyo musical. (So did Hayakawa...
Franks applied to be an IOP fellow after losing the 2000 New Jersey Senate race to Democrat Jon Corzine, who spent a record $63 million during his campaign. Though outspent ten to one in the 2000 election, Franks received 47 percent of the vote...