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January is when the mail brings Christmas bills, and so the authorities began taking another look at the new law that Senator Pat Moynihan described as "a suicide pact." Although it had a beautiful simplicity, with its annual series of automatic budget cuts, nothing could possibly be that simple. The interest on the national debt had to be paid in full, for example, and if the Pentagon had just signed a contract to buy a million widgets, it would still be obligated to pay even if it canceled the contract. O.K., these were exempted...
...early days, the U.N. was dominated by the Western powers. But as fading empires shed their colonies in the '60s, the developing world gained a greater voice that the U.S. was often slow to acknowledge. Says former Ambassador (now U.S. Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Our biggest failing at the U.N.. . .is that we have never been able to think in terms of political coalitions." In the U.N.'s General Assembly, dubbed a "town meeting of the world" by former Secretary-General Trygve Lie, each nation--from the Seychelles (pop. 65,000) to China (pop. more than 1 billion...
...Thank God we finally won one!" exulted Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. "It's a glorious day in American history," agreed Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan of California. WE GOT 'EM, shouted a headline in USA Today. Kevin Kirby, 28, a Detroit garage attendant, echoed countless other Americans as he declared, "It's about time. We needed to prove that we were not going to sit and take it anymore...
Among those who waited up to 20 minutes to get Sills's John Hancock was Charlotte Frazier from Needham, said she looks so much like Sills that people often confuse her for the singer. In fact, Cambridge Police Officer Jack Moynihan--who was assigned to guard the soprano from overzealous fans--said he told Frazier, "I thought you were already here" when she arrived at the Coop...
...right. But he has not proven anything," Moynihan said...