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...Administration had requested four new B-2s as part of its goal of acquiring 75 of the bombers by the end of the century; the House action would halt production at the 15 aircraft previously authorized. In cutting Star Wars spending to $3.5 billion from the Administration's requested $5.2 billion, the House freed money for more conventional weapons. The measure also authorized servicewomen to have abortions in military clinics, at their own expense, and cleared female pilots to fly combat missions at the discretion of their services. All these issues are likely to be decided differently when the Senate...
...court's 5-to-4 vote forces the thousands of clinics that get aid from Washington under Title X of the Public Health Service Act to make a stark choice: either halt their abortion-counseling and -referral services or forgo federal funds, at a time when most clinics are strapped for cash. Until last week, the 1988 regulations -- which bar such clinics from offering either spoken instruction or printed materials that "encourage, promote or advocate abortion" -- were not enforced, pending the outcome of legal challenges...
Judge Sidney Shapiro apparently agreed with them. Late last week, after the prosecution rested its case and before the defense team began summoning witnesses, Shapiro called a halt to the proceedings. "There is insufficient evidence that Mr. Rodriguez acted in a reckless manner," he said. Not guilty...
...they fretted, even raised doubts about the need for the military-industrial complex. They declared that whatever changes might go on elsewhere, there had to be a "centralized system of management of defense programs." The next month Gorbachev rejected the 500-Day Plan, and economic reform came to a halt. "We have solid information," says a State Department official in Washington, "that the military-industrial complex played a critical role in blocking Gorbachev's proposals...
...analysis was not yet complete and that in any case the 4-in-10,000 figure greatly overstated the risk. "We don't know where those numbers came from," she said. Still, the FDA applauded a decision by the implants' manufacturer, Surgitek, a Bristol-Myers Squibb subsidiary, to halt immediately the worldwide distribution of the products until the investigation was completed...