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...severest G.O.P. pressure on the President was applied by a pair of key Western Senators: Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Appropriations Committee Chair man Mark Hatfield of Oregon. Their biggest dispute with Reagan concerned the Pentagon. Reagan had called for an annual defense-budget increase of 13%; Domenici proposed an increase of 5%. Both seemed adamant. "Nobody's moving the last few inches," complained a White House aide last Tuesday...
...contras to vote against aid to low-income Americans. The committee rejected Stevens' amendment, 15 to 14. The Appropriations Committee also delayed voting on a similar effort to attach funds for El Salvador to a bill providing emergency food aid for drought-stricken African nations. Declared Republican Senator Pete Domenici: "If the entire Administration policy for Central America is handled as poorly as this was handled, it is doomed...
...fallen or that power from windmills is vastly more expensive than that from other types of energy plants. Moreover, while most of the wind devices do produce electricity, all of them generate tax benefits of some sort even when they do not produce power. Says California Congressman Pete Stark, who is leading a House effort to dismantle some of what he considers to be the more abusive shelters: "They're not wind farms. They're tax farms...
...That's the joke," he says. "Here's Pete Rose at 75 still playing first base, and panning over to the commissioner's box, on his 588th monthly extension, there's Bowie Kuhn .. ." He laughed, something he has been doing increasingly. "I guess as the wine runs down, it does get sweeter," he said. -By Tom Callahan
Haworth got the game-winning goal at 12-08 of the second period when Boston's Tom Fergus inadvertently gave him the puck. Haworth then connected for his 22nd gold of the season on a 50-foot slapshot over the glove of goalie Pete Peeters...