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...compared with 82% who held that rating before the strike. One possible result: the number of near misses between aircraft reached a record 592 in 1984, and grew at an even faster pace during the first five months of last year. Reacting to pressure from Congress, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole has agreed to add nearly 1,000 new controllers during the next two years...
...concession to the U.S. auto industry, which strongly opposes air bags as too expensive, Washington kept the door open for conventional seat belts. If two-thirds of the U.S. population were covered by buckle-up laws by April 1989, said Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, the air-bag rule could be dropped...
...startled Reagan Administration studies the Soviets' plan for reaching a nuclear-free utopia by 2000 and wonders if the scheme is a genuine breakthrough or simply a propaganda ploy. Kansas Republican Bob Dole, the acerbic Senate Majority Leader, braces for a run at the presidency. America honors the birthday of slain Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday...
...Dole likes nothing better than salting his conversation with wry barbs, often aimed at Bob Dole. He even pokes fun at his presidential ambitions, which are complicated by the fact that this year he will frequently find himself at odds with Ronald Reagan or congressional Republicans or both over issues like tax reform and the budget. "I've been trying to keep one foot in 1988," he noted as he relaxed on a plane trip from his native Kansas last week. "Or one toe maybe. I may not have a foot...
...once Congress returns this week. Reagan will be pushing the Senate to overhaul the tax-reform plan passed by the House last year and to make difficult new cuts in domestic spending. Most Senate Republicans feel that tangling with tax reform is less important than tackling the budget; as Dole well knows, addressing that mess requires military cuts and tax increases that will raise Reagan's ire. How Dole handles his task as ringmaster of this cantankerous session could determine whether the Republicans hold the Senate this fall and whether he can achieve the statesmanlike stature necessary for a credible...