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...fomenting terrorism showed the Administration's failure to develop any consistent antiterrorist policy. One of the promoters of a Libyan invasion supposedly was Robert Gates, then CIA deputy director for intelligence. He is said to have written a memo in July 1985 plugging an invasion as a way to "redraw the map of North Africa...
After decades of Navajo encroachment into territory long claimed by the Hopi and successive efforts by the Federal Government to redraw the boundaries of their lands, a federal district court in Arizona in 1962 declared much of the disputed territory to be a "joint-use area." That effectively allowed the more numerous Navajo to dominate the land. But in 1974 Congress decided that it would be fairer to divide the joint lands equally, a solution that pleased neither tribe. Soon about 300 miles of barbed-wire fence bristled across the region, and the Government ordered 100 Hopi to one side...
...instead offered an 18-month salvage plan to balance the budget. The battle bitter. Deukmejian rejected the legislature's demands for a tax increase, and instead pared $1.1 billion from its budget by selective vetoes of spending items. The Democrats retaliated where they could, stonewalling Republican efforts to redraw the state's congressional districts and rejecting three of the Governor's high-level appointees. At times the conflict got a little childish. Last summer, when the Governor's staff began posting the number of days the Democrats had been holding the budget "hostage," the Democratic chairman...
Deukmejian's long-term agenda includes more welfare trimming, reform of a state supreme court he deems too liberal and a hotly disputed Republican proposal to redraw legislative districts last jiggered by Democrats. The test of his potential as a future leader of national stature, now that he has overcome a critical fiscal crisis, will be how well he can build a lasting prosperity...
About 18,000 voters have been registered through Big Vote since January. Ewing said, adding that the group's goal is between 15,000 and 25,000 registrants by the preliminary election--which may or may not happen in September, depending on whether the City Council can redraw outlawed district lines in time...