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The latest eruption came after Pan Am and TWA sent officers to Washington two weeks ago to ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to intervene in the fare fight. In a complex and involved maneuver, the lines wanted the CAB to ask the State Department to put pressure on the West...
Favorable Testimony. In a typical maneuver, Bailey last week managed to draw testimony from a key prosecution witness that was overwhelmingly favorable to the defense. The witness was Gene Oliver, a cocky former private in Charlie Company, who came forward to state that it was he, and not Medina, who...
GOVERNMENT SPENDING CUTS. Alan Greenspan argues that "the $4.7 billion reduction in this fiscal year's budget and the one-year delay in the welfare bill are the most important moves in the longer run. If we do not reduce our huge deficits, we will have grave difficulties controlling...
In the past the U.S. has always managed to block the Albanian resolution by rounding up a simple majority on a procedural motion declaring the matter important. But having counted heads last year, the U.S. has concluded that it can no longer depend on enough support for this. In short...
HOW TAIPEI MIGHT HANG ON. To prevent Taipei's expulsion, the U.S. could resort to another parliamentary maneuver; it could make a procedural move calling for separate treatment of the Albanian resolution's two parts, splitting the section that requires the seating of Peking from the section that...