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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among other family features: payments of up to $2,000 to cover costs when workers adopt children and a $5 million fund to help support and establish child-care centers. But the benefits were not free. In return for these and other new provisions, employees agreed to forgo automatic cost of living adjustments...
...Mainz, West Germany, Bush delivered his strongest speech since the Inauguration. He put the U.S. squarely in favor of the unification of Europe, addressing widespread pressure to lower the Continent's political as well as military tensions: "The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free." Turning specifically to the changing shape of some East bloc nations, Bush argued that their "passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. There cannot be a common European home until all within are free to move from room to room." But, he said, "let the Soviets know that our goal...
...occasionally face to face, with men she believes have betrayed Nicaragua. In the summer of 1987, Ortega signed a Central American peace plan proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. Among other things, the plan required each of the five participating countries to show that it had a free press. Ortega dispatched an emissary to tell Chamorro that La Prensa, then still banned, could reopen -- subject to government censorship. "I told him I wasn't interested," says Dona Violeta. "He became very nervous and explained to me that if La Prensa remained closed, Nicaragua would be accused of failing...
...accept airfare, hotel rooms and meals if attending a legislative conference, visiting a company plant or taking part in a celebrity golf or tennis tournament. A spouse or an aide can go along; children somehow slip in. Common Cause found that in 1987 Congressmen took eleven years' worth of free vacations courtesy of this proviso...
...trying to hide behind the judges and bureaucrats who would have received comparable raises and who are not in such bad odor with the public. But a reasonable pay raise keyed to automatic cost of living increases -- in exchange for a total loophole-proof ban on honorariums, gifts and free trips -- looks like a bargain when put up against, say, the average $14 billion annual cost of the S & L bailout. Some degree of public financing of campaigns might also help cut the umbilical cord between Congress and special interests, but last year campaign-reform efforts bogged down in partisan...