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...Queen, according to one biographer, "is a poor sailor," easily made queasy. Even so, the royals had intended to spend most of their time on board her yacht Britannia, the world's largest (412 ft. long), best staffed (a crew of 254) and most expensive (more than $5 million a year to maintain). But even in the balmy Mexican Pacific, the Queen fretted about the rough California seas ahead. The gray, foreboding skies settled in just before Britannia slid up to San Diego's Broadway Pier a week ago last Saturday...
Proponents claim that the appropriated funds could create up to 400,000 jobs in fiscal 1983. The largest single item, a supplemental $1.25 billion in fiscal 1983 for community development, is intended to produce 80,000 jobs in light construction. Other big-ticket jobs boosters: $200 million for the Economic Development Administration (which Reagan had hoped to abolish), $202 million for small-business loans, $200 million for rural water and sewer grants, and $100 million for summer jobs for youths. Also included in the final bill was about $375 million in humanitarian aid, including $100 million for a food program...
John Paul actually had launched his counterattack earlier in the day, while visiting Nicaragua's second largest city León (pop. 92,000). In a speech to an audience consisting mainly of campesinos, the Pope challenged a new law on education that favored secular schooling. Instead, John Paul championed the right of all to receive a Christian education. He also called on Christians to examine the teachings of the church in their search for social justice. Said the Pope, in a thinly veiled attack on Marxist-oriented "liberation theologians": "It is not necessary to hold alien ideologies in order...
...Claiming about 74 seats in the 125-seat House of Representatives (an approximate swing of 22), Hawke and his Laborites ended the 7½-year reign of Incumbent Malcolm Fraser and his Liberal/ National Party coalition. Fraser, a three-time winner whose majorities in 1975 and 1977 were the largest in Australian history, tersely conceded defeat. Then, pale and close to tears, he stunned supporters by announcing his immediate resignation as Liberal leader...
...principal characters in last week's events remained offstage: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It is increasingly clear that OPEC will need some cooperation from other oil-producing countries to have any hope of controlling prices. Two of the largest of these competitors, Mexico and Norway, have been yielding to the full-court press they have been getting from OPEC oil ministers in the past week or two, but apparently Thatcher has not. Said one of her aides: "OPEC is a cartel and must run its own affairs. It must stop involving the British government...