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...when it sets tax rates and funds expensive programs. For his part, the President continues to bank on the wishful thinking that the economy can grow its way out of the red; he refuses to face up to the reality that spending cuts and higher taxes are needed to make real progress toward reducing the $155.1 billion budget deficit...
While Florida-based ships offer similar trips to nowhere, Le Mistral is the first in Texas. One reason is that it cruises through a loophole in state law that requires the ship to make a "bona fide voyage to a foreign port," an obligation Le Mistral fulfills by sailing to a point off Mexico and clearing customs by radio. But the Texas legislature is considering striking the foreign-port requirement, thus making such cruises more practical from Galveston and other Texas ports...
Allison doesn't like that idea at all. For her, adventures are what happen when you make a mistake. She has been climbing, she says precisely, "for 11 1/2 years." She is a gifted rock climber. At extreme altitude, she is an aerobic marvel, renowned for climbing at unusual speed. She and the rest used bottled oxygen much of the time because of the dangers of altitude sickness. A reporter with some experience at altitude asks whether she felt sluggish and slow-thinking when she wasn't using oxygen. This is what he remembers and what virtually all climbers report...
Luce has quit her messenger job. She and Carl Jones, a Seattle filmmaker, plan to pedal mountain bikes from Vladivostok to Leningrad, camping or sleeping in the houses of ordinary folk along the way, in a five-month tour starting in May. Four Americans and four Soviets will make the trip with cameras rolling, and then they will do a similar tour in the U.S. next year. The Soviets are enthusiastic, says Luce. Only one element is still uncertain. Right the first time. So it is back, with smile and mandolin, to the powerful- legs, powerful-suits scene. Back...
After a month as President, George Bush had his first chance to make a splash on the world scene. But as he began a series of one-on-one meetings with some of the foreign leaders who went to Japan for the funeral of Emperor Hirohito, Bush suffered a slap from which not even the 6,800 miles between Washington and Tokyo could remove the sting. Disregarding fervent pleas by the President, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11 to 9 along strict party lines to reject his nomination of former Senator John Tower to be Secretary of Defense...