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...Wilder of Virginia has continued to defy assumptions about the social priorities of black Democrats by proposing that the state eliminate, among other things, the Department for Children, the Council on the Status of Women and the Council on Indians. In California, where health and highways are obsessions, Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican, is taxing granola bars and raising the cost of registering cars...
...million campaign against the ballot initiative, was forced to apply the lion's share of the cutbacks. "It's a crippling blow," moaned Brown. Without the experts, for example, legislators were not responding promptly to the budget recently proposed by the new Governor, Republican Pete Wilson. "We don't have the analytical ability," said Brown. "We don't have the talent back there able...
...everybody was unhappy with the cuts. Their most gratified supporter was the author of Proposition 140, Pete Schabarum, 62, a crusty member of the Los Angeles county board of supervisors and former state assemblyman who is now campaigning to extend the term-limit stricture to the state's Senators and 45 Congressmen and to elected bodies in all 58 counties...
...controls. Meanwhile the Federal Government warned of up to 75% cutbacks in the low-priced water from its reservoirs over the next few weeks. City governments convened emergency sessions to consider strict rationing for business and residential users. In the first unforeseen crisis of his new administration, Governor Pete Wilson stopped just short of declaring a state of emergency, instead creating a "drought action team" to draft a water plan in two weeks. "Concern is justified. Panic is not," cautioned Wilson. "This is a threat to our livelihoods, not our lives...
Disgruntlement among the press was roiling all week. Press briefings in Saudi Arabia grew testy, as tight-lipped officers evaded questions as simple as what the weather was like over Iraq. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams was fending off more attacks than an Iraqi supply depot. "There is a beast of war out there, an elephant we're trying to describe," said a frustrated Forrest Sawyer on ABC's Nightline. "Based on the information we're given, we're about at the toenail range." Pentagon briefings, meanwhile, churned out sterile numbers (1,000 sorties a day, 80% of them successful...