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...Greek threat will delay final agreement on membership for Spain and Portugal at least until March. That will leave just nine months for the parliaments of all twelve nations to ratify the necessary treaties before the entry target date of January 1986. The timing is particularly important for Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, who has promised his countrymen a referendum on Spain's continued membership in NATO by February 1986. Gonzalez has hinted that without E.C. membership he may not get the popular support he needs for NATO. Says a senior Spanish diplomat: "You cannot ask us to participate...
These days, buyers begin stock-piling toys in April, according to Crocket, snapping them up at just nickels over wholesale price. The money raised this year goes to pay for the toys already purchased. At far as a fundraising target for this year, Crocket says. "You huge to do as well as last year [but] we don't set a quota...
...extent that these principles have been violated or ignored by past U.S. administrations, this country has presented itself as a ready target for any number of forms of attack. It has victimized both the peoples we have slighted, and the Americans who have then borne the ugly backlash of such resentment...
Dole is conservative in his voting record, but he has made barbed attacks on supply-side economics and staunchly defends such traditionally liberal measures as the food stamp program and the Voting Rights Act. His eclectic stands have made him a target of the so-called young Turks, a highly vocal group of right-wing Republicans in the House. Charges Newt Gingrich of Georgia, a member of the group: "Dole is the tax collector for the welfare state." Responds Dole: "If you are in the minority, you can put out a lot of newsletters...
...country's multibillion-dollar cocaine and marijuana industry. In response to a U.S.-Colombian move to extradite 78 Colombian dealers to face charges in the U.S., unnamed drug barons three weeks ago threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week's attack was U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs, who is in the habit of leaving the embassy each day at about the time the bomb exploded. Six months earlier, a car laden with explosives blew up prematurely outside his official residence...