Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategic situation more "predictable" and slow the pace of arms spending. But the commission could not agree on whether SALT II, a treaty now in limbo, should be revised-with major amendments-so as to become SALT III, replaced with a more modest agreement, or passed with only minor modifications...
Airman Recruit Paul A. Trerice, 21, was no stranger to naval correctional practices. He had been busted once on a minor drug charge and again after being caught off limits with a WAVE in her barracks. Early last month while shipmates enjoyed liberty in Hong Kong, he was confined to the CCU for falling asleep while on duty. But Trerice was not responding to treatment. After two unauthorized absences from the ship, he was placed in the brig. On April 14, Trerice refused to complete an exercise session for CCU inmates. According to some accounts, he asked to report...
...this week with even greater ease. Responding to the new frugal mood, the Senate last week reversed an earlier vote and approved a $7.9 billion reduction in cost of living increases for retired federal employees and Social Security recipients in fiscal 1982. After the two budgets have been passed, minor differences between the resolutions will have to be resolved in a conference committee. And then, unless the whole budget process later goes off its planned track, a radical reversal of federal economic policy will be enacted into...
...Shimon Peres seemed almost assured. Polls showed, in fact, that Labor might obtain a genuine majority in the 120-seat Knesset, more than it has ever managed to do before. Last week, however, a new poll showed Labor and Likud each taking 41 seats, with a scattering going to minor parties, and a number undecided...
Israel has a growing drug problem, too, though it is a minor disease compared with the plague in many other countries. There are about 6,000 known addicts, and over the last five years 53 Israelis have died from hard drugs, 23 in 1980 alone. Though the government says that only 2% of the country's high school youths have tried hashish, it is taking no chances; it is a crime just to be present at a gathering where drugs are used...