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Last, Thursday, the House speedily passed the Administration's $175.3 billion military authorization bill for 1983, by an overwhelming vote of 290 to 73. The final document differed hardly a what from what the Administration had first requested--a symbolic 1 percent overall reduction, and a reneval of a $54...
When times are good, the Midwest is an area where the Republican Party can take for granted elephant-size congressional delegations and more than its share of statehouses. Devastated as it is by deepening recession, the region has now become what one presidential adviser calls "the soft underbelly of the...
Senior Larry Stein described his performance as "pretty poor," especially under the duress of playing with two lefthanded opponents. His troubles began on the first hole, he said, and with "The Himalayas" and "The Elephant Trap" still to go, there was not much hope for improvement.
There are about 650,000 sheep. There used to be 100,000 wild cattle too, but they almost all got killed, as did the elsewhere-unknown "wolf fox," called the warrah. There are also sea lions, sometimes in colonies as large as 300, and elephant seals up to four tons...
Presiding over this curious series of public presentations was the prime proponent of the Administration's us-vs.-them world view, Secretary of State Alexander Haig. "This situation is global in character," he told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week. "The problem is worldwide Soviet interventionism that poses an...