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...reached agreement on a budget resolution that set spending targets for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Senate and House negotiators worked late into the night, and Reagan, in one spectacular heave, sandbagged the Senate leadership of his own party. Almost no one was happy with the watered-down document that emerged, and everyone faulted everyone else. Said North Dakota Senator Mark Andrews: "People are growing seven fingers on each hand so they can point their fingers at who is to blame...
...This isn't a conference report," protested Oregon's Democratic Congressman Les AuCoin. "It's a surrender document." His House colleague, California Democrat Don Edwards, agreed. "The House was skunked," he complained. Their anger was directed at the outcome of a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the two chambers on next year's defense spending. The Senate had prevailed so overwhelmingly, with the unexpected concurrence of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, that House leaders decided to delay until after the recess a vote on the compromise military-spending package. Most galling of all, but perhaps...
Those sweeping words and the many thousands that followed became enshrined in the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. The document, signed by 33 European nations, the U.S. and Canada, was an agreement to work together on common problems, from reuniting families to conducting research on permafrost, from forecasting earthquakes to forewarning about military maneuvers. Ten years later, the assessment of those noble pledges has soured. Said Secretary of State George Shultz at last week's commemorative session in the Finnish capital: "The most important promises of a decade ago have not been kept...
...number of details have to be worked out before the document is signed, including which language will be used over the hot line. But, cautions one Washington aviation official, the proposed communications link will work only if it is used, and there is no guarantee that the Soviets will use it. AFGHANISTAN The Soviets' "Bloody Nose...
...grandfather would have loved being with me when I first saw the copy of the Declaration of Independence that my wife Lyn and I subsequently bought. It was spring 2001, and I had read that the document was going to be auctioned off by Sotheby's on the Internet. One of our little girls went to school with a little girl whose dad ran Sotheby's in Los Angeles. He told me that the document, which happened to be sitting in his office, was one of 25 that existed in the world at the time. It was one of those...