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...with 35 Congressmen to ask for support to sustain his veto. One danger of such a bill is that American import restrictions would provoke its trading partners to take similar actions, hurting U.S. exports. The Administration is not ignoring the industry, however. Last week the U.S. Government agreed to renew for five years an important international pact that governs trade in textiles. The so- called Multi-Fiber Agreement expands import controls to popular fibers such as linen and silk blends. The pact, said a White House statement, stands "in sharp contrast to the sledgehammer approach" of the congressional bill...
...Government who point to his substantive successes. They cite his role in devising the Navy's bold interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro, his ability to overcome Pentagon qualms about launching air strikes against Libya and his role in getting Congress to renew military aid to contra forces in Nicaragua...
...disillusioned middle-aged men. The youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have done just that: Tom has a guilty secret that sent him wandering; Huck has a guilty secret that made him a recluse. On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure...
...remains firmly in control as President, but has allowed political parties to renew their activities. Indeed, last week the Punjab provincial government posted thousands of police near the P.P.P.'s motorcade and rally sites to make sure there would be no embarrassing incidents. The beefed-up security, however, did not prevent an apparently deranged retired army officer from bursting into a house where he thought Bhutto was staying, claiming that he wanted to marry her. "Just a simple legal ceremony will do," he told reporters. Bhutto hinted that the man might have been an assassin...
...otherwise--and presumably we elect them on the basis of their commitments and convictions. That our candidates have opinions--even strong and perhaps single-minded ones--is no criticism of their abilities, and far from threatening the electoral process and the composition of the board actually should strengthen and renew them...