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...stayed alive. In 1966, under severe pressure from French President Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated military commands and closed down U.S. military facilities in France; NATO moved its headquarters from Paris to Belgium...
...last powerful crusader for drastic measures to reduce the deficit. Stockman combined an instinctive feel for fiscal policy, an unmatched understanding of budgetary fine print and a sharp sense of legislative tactics. His gutsy advocacy of severe cuts in politically sacred programs, ranging from school lunches to farm subsidies to military pensions, was often labeled draconian and infuriated members of both parties. Also unsettling, particularly to the President, was the blunt and brilliant Budget Director's penchant for candor, which arose from his loyalty to what he considered to be the truth, as embodied in facts and figures, rather than...
...Flying Nun image. At first glance, Sally Field, 38, seemed to be mining the same emotional vein in Murphy's Romance, the new movie she made in Arizona with James Garner. It is about a divorcée who moves to a small Western town to take over a horse farm with her twelve-year-old son. But wait, this is no grim battle with mean local bosses or foreclosing bankers. "It's a lighter film," says Director Martin Ritt, who worked with Field on Norma Rae. "We had a great time. Sally is a natural at doing comedy." Aha, back...
...Minuteman Ills are under the immediate control of the "launch facility" called Tango Zero. Tango is situated on a farm 80 miles northwest of Great Falls. Aboveground the launch facility appears to be an elongated, plain, fenced-in house. Belowground lie two connected "capsules," rooms shaped like medicine capsules; one is the equipment room, the other, sealed behind an 8'/2-ton blast door, is the room where a two-man crew, sitting at two separate "status consoles," receives messages and stares at boards of lights. On June 6 this year, the command crew was 1st Lieut. Donald R. ("Skip") MacKinnon...
Trumpler said her interest in cheese started two to three years ago when she ordered a platter of cheese in a local restaurant in Western Massachusetts. Fascinated by the taste of the cheese, she became interested in value-added farming, which includes making cheese from milk produced on a dairy farm. She currently owns a cheese farm in Vermont with her life partner...