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...Bentsen's races, Jann Olsten, executive director of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, said yesterday, "There is no question that one is going to impact the other...
While awaiting a new generation of textbooks, teachers of history glean material from glasnost-era news articles telling long-repressed tales, such as that of Nikolai Bukharin, whose free-market economics (presaging Gorbachev's) helped get him executed by Stalin. The impact of these makeshift texts is already apparent in the discussions in Yamburg's Moscow classroom, where 15- year-olds recently debated Stalin's role in Soviet history. "He had a lot to do with the industrialization and collectivization of our country," asserted one blond-haired boy. But a classmate countered, "Some consider him a criminal because he ruined...
...Force made the mistake of trying to shut down its Loring base in northern Maine. The state's Republican Congressman, William Cohen (now a Senator), joined then House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill to require the Pentagon to submit costly and time-consuming environmental impact studies before any base could be shuttered. Loring was saved, as were such anchors of the nation's defense as Virginia's moated Fort Monroe, commissioned shortly after the War of 1812, and Utah's Fort Douglas, built in 1862 to guard against attacks by hostile Indians...
...year's end the panel would submit a list of proposed base closings to Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, waiving environmental-impact statements. Carlucci must approve or reject the entire list. If Congress votes to save the bases, it could be overruled by a presidential veto. The House bill is similar to a plan passed by the Senate; after the two bills are reconciled, President Reagan is expected to approve. The savings from the shutdowns could be as much as $5 billion annually...
...impact will soon be felt at the supermarket, but it may not be too severe. The USDA estimates that retail food prices will rise no more than 5% this year. One reason: much of this year's grain shortfall will be made up from stocks set aside during past bountiful harvests...