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...opponents remain confident that Congress will refuse to renew the funding. "Even after six days of Ollie North, there is still no clear majority in favor of contra aid," said Michigan Congressman Dave Bonior, chief deputy Democratic whip. "I think we have an excellent chance of cutting off aid." Predictions of a complete cutoff were widespread last fall when it was first learned that the Administration had been circumventing congressional restrictions on support for the rebels. But lawmakers now admit that any new aid package must be considered apart from the scandal. "With North's testimony, there's obviously...
Those who fear that successful economic reforms would lead Moscow to renew its expansionist policies argue that, despite Gorbachev's rhetoric, the Soviet quest for security is essentially aggressive. The Russian word for security, bezopasnost, translates literally as "absence of danger." Moscow's way of achieving that state has often been to identify a danger, then crush it. As a largely landlocked nation with a history of being invaded, Russia developed an expansionist desire to control large territories. Over the years, there has been nothing as offensive as Russia on the defensive. Witness the postwar subjugation of Eastern Europe...
During the past year, the city's Licensing Board has under pressure from neighborhood groups refused to renew B.U.'s license to use some 60 apartment buildings along Beacon Street for student housing, Carleton said...
...homes have had television sets, the A.C. Nielsen company has provided the official figures on who was watching what. But now Nielsen's ratings supremacy is in doubt for the first time in more than 30 years. Last week CBS became the second network to say it will not renew its long-standing contract to receive Nielsen data. The CBS agreement expires at the end of August. ABC allowed its annual contract to lapse in March, and is now buying Nielsen's services month by month while the network tries to negotiate new terms. Losing ABC and CBS as customers...
Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou came to power in 1981 vowing not to renew an agreement that allows the U.S. to maintain four large military bases in Greece. With 19 months left before the accord expires, Papandreou last week announced he would call a referendum on the issue. The vote will take place only if Greece and the U.S. are able to come up with terms of a new pact for voters to ratify. Papandreou has gradually been softening his stand on the bases in recent months. Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias will meet with Secretary of State George Shultz during...