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Two weeks ago, when all appeared lost, Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer made a final attempt to save the bill. He met with Simpson, Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey, who sponsored the House version, and Republican Congressman Dan Lungren of California. Together they produced a compromise called the...
Nobody is for drugs. Which is one reason why Democrats and Republicans were so eager to pass an antidrug bill before returning home to re-election campaigns. So what is the problem? It seems that the House Republicans wanted a bill with a provision mandating the death penalty for drug...
Thanks to several hours of deft negotiations last week, Democrats and Republicans had it both ways. After two months of wrangling over the $1.7 billion antidrug measure, leaders utilized a little-known procedure that allowed the House to approve the bill with the death penalty intact and then send it...
In addition to raising U.S. prices, the pact could help American chipmakers compete overseas, since it requires the Japanese government to prevent its chipmakers from selling semiconductors below cost in all other countries as well -- though that provision may be difficult to enforce. Perhaps more important, the Japanese government has...
Questions about the role of Communists in the A.N.C. are hardly going to disappear. When Congress finally passed new U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa three weeks ago, it ordered President Ronald Reagan to issue a report early next year detailing any Communist influences on the A.N.C. The provision was...