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Friendship was not the only reason Reagan and Republican Party Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf wanted Laxalt to stay put on Capitol Hill. The G.O.P. is concerned that defeats in the 1986 elections could erase the party's current 53-47 Senate majority. While the Republicans must defend 22 seats on the...
Is Laxalt's decision final? There was no indication to the contrary, but Nevada remembers how Democratic Senator Alan Bible, another of the state's political institutions, announced he was quitting in the mid-1950s, only to reverse himself after arm-twisting by then Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Laxalt...
Pilots, who are still bound by the FAA's age-60 rule, may now have a case to make. "If I'm safe one day before I'm 60," asks Jack Young, an involuntarily retired Eastern pilot, "how can I be unsafe one day later?" Others may ask the same...
The televised speech was one of the most dramatic demonstrations yet of Gorbachev's determination to spur the economy by using tactics advocated by his mentor, the late Yuri Andropov. Western analysts believe that the tough talk may signal a new phase in Gorbachev's ascendancy. Two months after he...
Reagan was forced into a SALTbox in part because the U.S. will soon be in violation of one of the agreement's provisions. When the Navy begins sea trials of the U.S.S. Alaska Trident submarine in September, the U.S. will have 14 more than the 1,200 multiwarhead land- and...