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...increased cost, of course, largely represents President Bush's decision to roughly double the size of the U.S. force in the gulf area. Nonetheless, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has raised its estimate of the extra costs of Operation Desert Shield from an initial $7 billion to only $12 billion. Some legislators suspect the Pentagon of playing a numbers game in arriving at its own, far higher figure. Because Congress decided to finance the gulf operation outside the regular budget, they believe, the Defense Department is exaggerating Desert Shield's price tag by including many extraneous costs...
...fall, Bourassa says, he will appoint a nonpartisan commission to begin a public debate on the province's future. He will include members of the National Assembly, labor, business and community leaders. Though it is too early to say for sure, he does not rule out the idea of a referendum on the commission's proposals. Next March a constitutional commission of his Quebec Liberal Party will complete an outline of the conditions under which Quebec will remain in Canada. In an interview with TIME last week, Bourassa expressed interest in the European Community, where jealously sovereign states like France...
There are plenty of kids in Belfast who reject either option. Some of them opt for "joyriding," a relatively new plague, a widespread, nonpartisan and deadly display of juvenile delinquency that equally confounds parents, the paramilitaries and the police...
...bleak stretches of treeless housing tracts, especially inland. It intensified the traditional local conflict between a laid-back resort atmosphere and a stressful development. It imposed urban ills like crime and overcrowded jails. But at the same time it threw open the doors of opportunity, creating a fluid new nonpartisan politics. And, in the absence of blue-blood dynasties like those in Boston or San Francisco, it engendered an unapologetic admiration for new money...
...time he did so on Sept. 2, his department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour. Republicans are livid. Complained Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber: "Patronage is the lifeblood of politics in many congressional districts. To have this slip by us for bureaucratic reasons is just infuriating...