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...morale but also as a gesture of U.S. resolve, Reagan three weeks ago tied the funding request to a new Nicaraguan "peace initiative." If the Sandinistas would agree to hold negotiations with rebel leaders under the auspices of Nicaragua's Roman Catholic hierarchy, he proposed, the U.S. would temporarily limit its aid to nonmilitary items. If no progress was forthcoming in the talks after 60 days, however, Washington would again start providing the contras with firepower...
...camp during a 13-day trip through Asia, remained wary of a U.S. commitment to Kampucheans fighting 160,000 Vietnamese troops occupying their country. Although the House of Representatives last week approved $5 million in aid to non-Communist Kampuchean resistance fighters, the Reagan Administration wants to limit its assistance to nonmilitary supplies. Congress, Shultz pointed out, could easily reverse itself...
...code, sponsored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, is more prescriptive and restrictive than any other ever adopted by an American city. At once radical and conservative, the Downtown Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate of 950,000 sq. ft., the equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development southward into a shabbier quarter. Most intriguing are the provisions that will halve the bulk of new buildings...
When he cannot cobble together a majority, Brennan tries other tactics. He will cajole the conservative opinion writer with memos--called letters at the court in an effort to limit the damage to a liberal precedent. Sometimes he will get on the phone to put his case personally. The Justice's long tenure and encyclopedic knowledge of past decisions help to make him more persuasive. His intellectual pressure, say many court insiders, has meant that some opinions that start out broadly conservative end up stating a more limited principle...
...cranky exchanges stemmed partly from the White House decision to limit reporters' access to the President's doctors and not to release a full pathology report on his condition. In public, however, Reagan's doctors have so far been commendably open in discussing their patient's condition. As for the reporters, few would deny Reagan the right to a certain amount of privacy. Still, many of them feel that Speakes did a clumsy job of defining the boundary between the public's need to know about its leader's health and Reagan's rights as a patient...