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...Army first tried to remove the bombs in 1978 but halted the effort when inspectors discovered that ten of the bombs were leaking GB.- Utah Governor Scott Matheson tried to block the transfer but Colorado Senator Gary Hart attached a rider to a defense bill directing Washington to detoxify the bombs or have them removed by this October...
...following year, O'Connor reportedly opposed a "right-to-life memorial" that called upon Congress to extend constitutional protection to unborn babies, except where the pregnant mother's life was at stake. Also in 1974, she opposed a University of Arizona stadium bond issue after a rider had been attached banning state abortion funding to the university hospital...
...Connor does not recall her vote on the pro-life memorial (it was not officially recorded). She has solid, if legalistic, explanations for her other two votes. A strict constructionist, she does not believe that her family-planning measure could be interpreted to include abortion. The bond-issue rider, she believed, was not germane to the bill and O'Connor as Arizona senator therefore violated the state constitution...
...Rough Rider, pronouncing life to be bully, went out on horseback in the morning, with his latest glasses and his latest shotgun, and fired away at everything living. McCullough scrupulously follows his subject. But because of Teddy's determined blindness of heart, he cannot love him or quite forgive him. -By Melvin Maddocks
Though the Administration opposes all-savers, blocking it may be difficult. The White House has already agreed not to oppose the Senate Finance Committee version of the President's tax bill, which, except for the all-savers rider, closely tracks the original Reagan tax-cut proposals. Unless the Administration can succeed in getting the all-savers clause deleted when the tax measure comes to a full debate later this summer, subsidized savings may become part of the first tax bill signed into law by this most outspokenly antisubsidy President...