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...Lent of New York was promised that the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane, made on Long Island, would not be phased out as planned if he voted for the tax bill. Lent "agonized," then supported the President. Said one White House aide: "This has been the biggest shopping spree we've gone through...
Last week's hotel bill brouhaha made Miamians wonder if the Saudi spending spree was over. The hoteliers say Mohammad recently bounced 37 checks, and on Thursday they got a judge to impound his jewelry and cars still at the Diplomat. Several indulgent creditors, including a taxi company with unpaid fares totaling $157,000, were fretful, and Mohammad's construction crew walked off the job. But Rasheed, the family spokesman, was reassuring. "Everybody will get his money. Everybody will be happy, kiss the hand and come to work again.'' -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by William McWhirter/Miami
Lopez Portillo was heading for trouble in any case, but last year's world oil glut brought a sudden end to Mexico's spree. As prices for crude oil began to drop around the world, Mexico stubbornly tried to hold the line. When Jorge Diaz Serrano, the president of Pemex, announced a $4-per-bbl. price cut, he was promptly sacked, and Mexican oil prices were jacked up again. Customers went elsewhere until Mexico bowed to the pressures of the marketplace. By that time, the country had lost about $1 billion hi revenue, and the drain has continued...
...every Administration. The same pictures of the poor starving children are shown year after year to gain our sympathy-and contributions. There will always be helpless people getting hurt. President Reagan should not have to take all the blame. He, like Presidents before him, could go on a spending spree of our children's future so that everyone would like...
...gone mad, the reptilian brain taking over, the savage part of us wading through gore wearing ivory-handled pistols: war as a picnic of cannibals. The Icelandic author Halldor Laxness found the murderous fascination of war in the Old Norse texts of Scaldic poetry, the hymns of the "kill spree." The poets were particular about the best light and color for battle: "The hour before daybreak is all right because it lends to the crimson of liquid blood a nice admixture of an azure sky and the silvery gray of the fading moon...