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...still nursing wounds for breaking his "no new taxes" pledge during the heated political battle. Yet virtually no one wants to rescind the budget deal and thereby widen the menacing federal deficit. While the Senate Budget Committee debated a resolution last week to roll back the agreement and halt the burdensome tax increases in light of the recession, lawmakers voted 21-0 to reject the proposal...
Even U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-III.), who has said in public that Congress might begin discussion of a draft after several months of ground war, has put a halt to speculation. "There is no need for the draft," his spokesperson said. "No one wants...
...interrupted work of imagination be completed decades after its creator is gone? In the years since Gaudi's death in 1926, such admirers as architects Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius and artists Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies have demanded a halt to construction, which has been under way in fits and starts since 1882. Continuing to work on the building, contends architect Josep Anton Acebillo, is "like adding arms to the Venus de Milo." Nonetheless, the building continues to be financed privately -- and enthusiastically -- by contributors ranging from Catalan nationalists to Japanese businessmen to American tourists...
...crude prices rose briefly. On news of the initial success of Operation Desert Storm, they collapsed in their sharpest drop in history. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, oil contracts for February delivery fell $10.56 per bbl. on Thursday after an avalanche of sell orders forced a one- hour halt in trading moments after the opening bell. The frantic trading slashed the oil price to near the $20-per-bbl. level that prevailed just before the gulf crisis began. "Euphoria is too weak a word," observes John Lichtblau, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation. "The market assumes that...
...later, Gorbachev told the parliament that "thousands of telegrams" had arrived at the Kremlin, along with appeals from the Committee of National Salvation, demanding presidential rule be imposed in Lithuania to halt the restoration of "a bourgeois state." He even waved a document, allegedly found by the KGB in a Lithuanian government building, which he said was a list of Communists and anti-independence leaders marked for detention...