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...scheduled to come up for a final vote until this week, by last Friday the White House had agreed to exclude weaponry and ammunition from the aid package for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30. There is a chance, moreover, that House Democrats will succeed in passing an even more limiting measure, one that would restrict expenditures to purely humanitarian aid like food and medicine for the benefit of noncombatant Nicaraguan refugees living elsewhere in Central America. (Any funds, of course, would be helpful to the contras, since they would free other money for arms...
...this framework to succeed will take some serious whittling in the only area still left open: the much reduced domestic spending programs. House Speaker Tip O'Neill says that items to be considered include the Small Business Administration, Amtrak and revenue sharing. Further cuts will not be easy, nor are they likely to come close to replacing the $28.6 billion over three years that would be saved by freezes on Social Security, other entitlements and Government pensions. At best, any compromise that finally emerges will be only the smallest of down payments toward cutting the deficit...
...spite of the many challenges, MacCready has little doubt that by recreating the original pterosaur's design, the Q.N. team will succeed. Says he: "Nature does nothing that is stupid. The only purpose of those huge wings would be to fly, and there is a certain amount of evidence that the pterosaur could fly pretty well." Paleontologist Langston is equally optimistic: "We fully expect this model to fly," he says. "If anyone can do it, MacCready can." --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles
...brother will soon be added to the list, and I am not far behind. My parents will leave us not an inheritance of wealth but one much more valuable, and that is the citizenship we hold in America, a land that makes it possible to obtain an education and succeed in a world where many are not as fortunate. Steve Ramirez El Paso...
...heavily armed troops rolled into Kampala. Half an hour later, a voice interrupted programming on the state-run Radio Uganda to announce the "end of Obote's tribalistic rule." Obote had been charged with the killings of as many as 100,000 people since his election in 1980 to succeed the even more bloodstained dictator Idi Amin Dada...