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...observation of the necessity for an absence of crossover memberships on the commission and board requires that I accept your resignation." How's that? Iacocca went to Hodel's office and handed him a letter "to assure you that I have not resigned . . . nor, I might add, do I intend to do so." Iacocca also disavowed the wording of the Palmer Wald telegrams, saying he had not seen them before they were sent...
...serve as a starting point for compromise. Even if the Supreme Court agrees that the mechanics of Gramm-Rudman are constitutionally flawed, there will be--and certainly should be--pressure to meet the deficit ceilings it mandates. "Whatever the outcome," said Reagan in his weekly radio address Saturday, "we intend to go forward with our plan to bring the federal budget into balance by 1991." In one respect, Reagan's 1987 blueprint is less draconian than expected. It edges below the $144 billion deficit target with a $38 billion package of spending cuts and revenue proposals, rather than...
...Sharpshooters crouched on rooftops along the route. When Baby Doc returned to the palace, he complained, "It was a masquerade. Without all that security, my life would not have been worth a gourde"--Haitian currency worth about 20 cents. Still, he put on a bravado performance. Asked if he intended to hold elections, an unsmiling - Duvalier answered, "I intend to remain President-for-Life as constitutionally guaranteed...
...Year's Day speech, Babangida pledged to sponsor a national debate on the transfer of power to a civilian government. Said he: "I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria." The voluntary and orderly turnover of power to a civilian government would flout the norm in Africa, where coupmakers have all too often made similar pledges. Many observers, in fact, believe that Babangida's program will entrench military power for years to come...
...definitely a deeper and faster team than Princeton," Delaney Smith said. "We intend to press them and run them as intensely as possible. I really believe we created a lot for ourselves [in the first meeting] by doing that...