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...week after lawmakers rushed back to Washington to approve $10 billion for hurricane-relief efforts, nearly all that money had been spent, and the White House got Congress to shell out $52 billion more. For those who are keeping tabs on the tab...
...late last week, Administration aides were describing a three-part comeback plan. The first: Spend freely, and worry about the tab and the consequences later. "Nothing can salve the wounds like money," said an official who helped develop the strategy. "You'll see a much more aggressively engaged President, traveling to the Gulf Coast a lot and sending a lot of people down there...
...them will be three Nobel prizewinners and such luminaries as Günter Grass, Nadine Gordimer, Octavio Paz and Eugène Ionesco. The weeklong festivities will feature more than 30 panels on subjects as diverse as Translating Whitman, Alienation and the State, Science Fiction, and Censorship in the U.S.A. Total tab for the event, according to PEN: around...
Even though there is evidence that Abu Nidal's headquarters is now in Libya and that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is picking up the estimated $14 million annual tab for Abu Nidal's organization, some Western intelligence agencies note that the Fatah Revolutionary Council retains an office in Damascus as well as a training camp in Lebanon's Syrian-dominated Bekaa Valley...
International Harvester, which lost nearly $3 billion from 1980 to 1984, is spending about $10 million to change names. The tab includes consulting fees to Anspach Grossman Portugal, a New York City concern that, with the help of a computer, came up with 300 possible new designations. The International Harvester name, though, will not completely vanish. Case now owns it, along with the red-and-black IH logo, and is using both in advertising campaigns. AGRICULTURE Showdown at Guacamole Gulch...