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...patch together some kind of further compromise. Meanwhile, the budget quarrel is delaying an extension of the time during which the Government can exceed the statutory ceiling on the national debt, needed soon if the Government is to continue paying its bills. At week's end the fractious Congress voted for an extension, but only for five days...
...fractious Congress may finally okay Carter's requests
...thought, would not only enable the guerrillas to mount coordinated, large-scale military actions. It could also attract sizable new international backing, especially from sympathetic Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the tribes men hoped to select a 100-man Revolutionary Council that could unify the fractious movement under the banner of the United Islamic Liberation Front...
...members did just that. But after the most fractious meeting in OPEC's history-it was a "bazaar" in the scoffing description of Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani-the cartel failed to agree on any uniform price. Instead, each country will fix the cost of its crude. The cartel also failed to set limits on production, as some of its hawks sorely want to do. In fact, the divisions were sharp enough to raise questions about the future of OPEC. While its members' separate price rises will cause immediate pain to the rest...
...persuade his colleagues to produce a five-man majority; votes change and compromises are struck as individual opinions are exposed to the often withering scrutiny of the whole court. Ego clashes are not surprising, nor are they unique to just the Burger Court. Indeed, insiders consider this court less fractious than some of its predecessors...