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...While President Reagan refused to compromise on the unpopular budget he proposed last February, Congress continued squabbling over the mix of domestic and military spending and whether to raise taxes, ignoring the timetable, set by the Gramm-Rudman Act, which it considered so urgent last year. Shrugged House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We miss all kinds of deadlines around here...
...Administration's case drew vigorous agreement across almost the full spectrum of American political opinion. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, usually a leader of opposition to what his fellow Democrats see as an overly adventurous Reagan foreign policy, declared that "we just can't let this madman of terrorism (Gaddafi) keep threatening." Indeed, said O'Neill, if Libya continues to foment terrorism, "I think the American people would demand that we go in again." The New York Times and Washington Post, whose editorial writers are often skeptical about military action overseas, voiced approval of the raid. The most notable dissenter...
...close to 100 aircraft catapulted off their decks--18 A-6 and A-7 strike and strike-support craft, six F/A-18 fighters, 14 EA-6B electronic jamming planes and a variety of support craft. As the Air Force's F-111 squadron rounded the tip of Tunisia, it was skillfully integrated into the Navy's airborne armada by a single Air Force officer providing coordination from an airborne tanker...
...able to achieve total surprise in part by giving the Soviets the slip. The carrier task force managed to lose the Soviet warships that usually shadow the fleet. If the Soviets did spot the planes, at any rate, they evidently did not tip off their friends in Libya...
Across the aisle, the realization slowly dawned on the Democrats that the G.O.P. had outfoxed them. After the House rebuffed contra aid a month ago, Speaker Tip O'Neill had agreed to bring the matter back to the House floor -- but only if it was attached to a supplemental appropriations bill packed with goodies for legislators. He knew that the President was opposed to the pork-barrel bill. He also knew that it would take weeks or months before the House version could be reconciled with a Senate bill and put into a form that Reagan might sign. Thus, attaching...