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...would lose if a vote on overriding the veto were taken immediately, threatened a filibuster that--horrors!--could have delayed the chamber's Memorial Day recess. Finally, at 6:30, Dole acknowledged Saunders and announced a decision: the Senate would begin debate when it reconvened June 2, after the ten-day break, and vote by 2 p.m. on June...
...critical comments about George Bush last week were triggered by his clumsy jitterbug over whether plummeting oil prices were endangering America's national security and financial health. The furor followed him throughout his ten-day visit to Saudi Arabia and three other Arab nations. Although his Administration supporters tried to quiet the political uproar, Bush's potential rivals for the 1988 nomination helped keep him on the hot seat. "I certainly think it's a mistake to go to the Saudis for help to firm up the price of oil," New York Congressman Jack Kemp told the Buffalo News. Asked...
Gorbachev seemed eager to stop talking about change and to begin making it happen. The conclusion of the ten-day congress preceded by only a few days the anniversary of the Soviet leader's first year in power, a period that has seen a new push for less liquor and more labor, tighter work discipline and more thrift. It was high time, Gorbachev made clear, to begin realizing those goals. In its final week, the congress rubber-stamped two separate economic outlines that bear the Gorbachev seal. Both emphasize the rebuilding of obsolete factories and concentration on machine-tool production...
That moving visit to Mother Teresa's hospice in the Calcutta neighborhood of Kalighat was the high point of the first phase of the Pope's ten-day, 14- city tour of India, which ends this week. Although John Paul was treated with respect and courtesy at every turn, the reception was often unmistakably cool. Tight security measures cramped the Pontiff's usual hand-pressing style, but police cordons could not wholly explain the disappointing turnout at stops along his route. Indian political and non-Christian religious leaders sometimes strained to put a distance between themselves and the spiritual leader...
...baseball begins handing out its spoils, Whitey Herzog has been named Manager of the Year by the Associated Press, and Joaquin Andujar has been awarded a ten-day suspension by the commissioner. Neither was still in his St. Louis uniform when the Cardinals finished their season sourly, losing control of both the Kansas City Royals and themselves, 11-0, in a World Series whose major miscalculation was scheduling the seventh game sixth...