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...another issue awaits resolution tomorrow night, when a three-month moratorium on the sale of taxi medallions ends. The city's taxis have been under this ban since December, and Yellow Cab, the second-largest taxi company in the city, will also emerge from a special three-year ban on the sale of medallions from its fleet...
Last week the House voted, 230 to 196, to place a six-month moratorium on aid to the contras, until there is a full accounting by the Administration of money, both public and private, generated on behalf of the rebels, including $27 million in humanitarian aid sent in 1985. The measure, which would withhold the $40 million remaining of the $100 million appropriated last year, was an artful ploy linking opposition to the contras with congressional disgust over the Tower commission's revelations about the Administration's inept and probably illegal efforts on behalf of the contras. "Before we send...
...only alternative to supporting a guerrilla action is to bolster the diplomatic efforts that were part of the contra policy. Moderates in Congress claim the Administration has done little to advance the negotiations. Democratic Congressman Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma, a past supporter of contra aid, voted for the moratorium because of what he described as "ineptitude" on the diplomatic front. "There has been a complete undermining" of the negotiating process, he says. "What they've done is harden people like me who could have been friendly...
...been hints that the Soviet leader would produce an arms-control initiative at a peace forum in Moscow last month. Gorbachev's colleagues may have insisted the announcement be timed instead to coincide with the resumption of Soviet nuclear testing, which started two weeks ago after an 18-month moratorium, thus giving an appearance of dealing from nuclear strength. The Soviets may also have been concerned that they must reach agreement with the Reagan Administration or wait several years for new disarmament talks. No matter who wins the 1988 presidential election, it will take the new Administration time to come...
UNTYING THE PACKAGE. The possibility of an agreement on several critical disarmament problems emerged in Reykjavik. But the negotiations were frustrated by the SDI problem, more precisely by Reagan's reluctance or inability to conclude a compromise SDI agreement providing for both a moratorium on deployment in space of ABM components (which is a necessary condition) and specific limitations on the testing of SDI, which involves launches of components into space or underground nuclear explosions. In the version most acceptable to the U.S.S.R., the agreement would provide that SDI work be limited solely to laboratory research. Apparently the compromise agreement...