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Young and restless politicians with one life to live, desperately searching for the guiding light to another world of national celebrity. A new soap opera? Not quite, but close. It is the televised Iran-contra hearings that will pre-empt the soaps this week...
...with the SPS accelerator, and a second team of physicists at CERN using a detector known as UA2. Rubbia drove the UA1 team unmercifully, Taubes writes, then unofficially spread the news of a discovery before performing the sort of rigorous analysis that would confirm it. This maneuver would effectively pre-empt any claim by the UA2 group, which was proceeding with a more careful proof before going public. Says Physicist Bernard Sadoulet, a member of the UA1 team: "It was clear that we were working on something so central to particle physics that if we got it, our leader would...
...often as a politically palatable way to champion trade restrictions designed to help beleaguered industries in their home states. Some of those measures, which Congress is likely to debate in early 1987, could include export subsidies, import quotas or other protectionist steps that the Administration generally opposes. To pre-empt any protectionist bill, the Administration said in December that Reagan would announce his own competitiveness-boosting plan in January's State of the Union address. The Reagan proposal would emphasize increased productivity at home, probably through greater emphasis on worker training and research and development...
...Administration sees the GATT round as a way to pre-empt Congress, since productive trade talks could open up foreign markets to increased U.S. exports. To cover every possible angle at the GATT session, the White House sent, along with Yeutter, a heavy-hitting team: Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng and nearly 60 other delegates...
...pre-empt a growing congressional clamor for reform of the Pentagon, President Reagan last week endorsed a significant reorganization of the Pentagon's high command. The package he accepted was proposed by a blue-ribbon panel led by former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, which was set up in the wake of scandals over military procurement. The most important recommendations: to strengthen the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the ten worldwide theater commanders. By enhancing their authority, the Packard panel hoped to overcome the interservice rivalry that has impeded military planning by the Joint Chiefs...