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They do now. Split down the middle, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee decided to postpone its vote until after the congressional Easter recess. Despite intensive lobbying by Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted to slice in half the $60 million package. And though approving the full amount, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, like the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tied strings to the money: to get it, the Administration must promise to promote talks between the warring sides in El Salvador...
Most significant, the landmark $165 billion Social Security bailout package cleared its final hurdles with last-minute alacrity, if not grace. With only hours to go before a scheduled ten-day Easter recess, the Senate raced to endorse the Conference Committee compromise. The vote was 58 to 14; the night before, the House had nodded its approval with a 243-to-102 vote. "This is not a perfect bill," declared weary Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. "But we are not a perfect body. It is not the last word, but it is the best...
Only five hours before a midnight deadline last week, Eastern Air Lines avoided a potentially ruinous strike that would have grounded many of its flights just as the peak Easter season was getting under way. But the cost was enormous. Eastern had offered members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents 13,500 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground personnel at the airline, a 25% raise spread over two years, starting with a 6% hike in April. The union rejected that package. Instead it wound up with a 32% raise by 1984, including an immediate...
...spring again. And look what the Easter bunny has brought all the way from France: Daddy's illegitimate son. Product of a mad moment a decade ago, little Jean-Claude arrives wearing a heavy coat of wistfulness atop his natural Gallic charm. His mother, you see, has died of Segal's syndrome (named after the author of Love Story, in whose calculating and sentimental mind this new imposition first arose), and all that stands between the lad and orphanhood is Bob Beckwith's willingness to do the decent thing by getting his wife and daughters to accept...
...resolved in the Ways and Means, Appropriations, and Armed Services committees. Nor will the Republican-controlled Senate be an easy sell: despite G.O.P. sentiment to scale back Reagan's defense increases, leaders in the upper chamber bowed to Administration pressure and delayed consideration of the budget until after Easter...