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...should the Panamanians who are still living in tents four months after their homes in Panama City were destroyed by the U.S. invasion that ousted dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega. True, both House and Senate have approved $420 million for Panama and $300 million for Nicaragua, as part of an omnibus bill increasing spending for projects ranging from space research to grasshopper control. But the aid is below what George Bush wanted and well behind schedule. Bush had called for passage by April...
Until last week the assistance seemed likely to be held up still further by a dispute about -- of all irrelevant subjects -- abortion. The Senate had added to the omnibus bill a provision permitting the District of Columbia to use local public money to fund abortions, despite warnings that it would prompt Bush to veto the whole thing. Faced with that prospect, which could have delayed aid to Panama and Nicaragua for a month, the Senate agreed to delete the abortion provisions from the bill before it is sent to the President...
...events sent tensions rising again: the passage in 1988 of the U.S. omnibus trade bill, which provided an arsenal of retaliatory weapons; and adoption of the E.C.'s plan to create a single market by 1992, which Washington fears will entrench a Fortress Europe behind a Siegfried Line of trade barriers. Alleged European discrimination against American telecommunications equipment is the latest U.S. casus belli; the E.C., for its part, accuses the U.S. of playing "war games" with farm legislation in the current major round of international trade negotiations, the so-called Uruguay Round, which culminates in December...
...friends and many admirers, the English painter Walter Richard Sickert. When they decided to visit a cafe, young Sickert got ready to summon a horse-drawn cab. Degas objected. "Personally, I don't like cabs. You don't see anyone. That's why I love to ride on the omnibus -- you can look at people. We were created to look at one another, weren't we?" No passing remark could take you closer to the heart of 19th century realism: the idea of the artist as an engine for looking, a being whose destiny was to study what Balzac...
...come. Urged on by many businessmen, Reagan last May vetoed an omnibus trade bill because it contained the notification provision. Overridden in the House, the veto was sustained by a precarious five-vote margin in the Senate. The Democrats, emboldened by polls indicating that 82% of voters favored advance notification, continued to push for the measure. The bill's sponsors cited a 1985 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that more than half of the 2.2 million workers involved in large-scale layoffs each year received one day's notice or less before being thrown out of work...