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...issue faced a much tougher climb in the Democratic-controlled House. Speaker Tip O'Neill timed a vote to be close to that of the Senate, forestalling any victory momentum. Over two days, Congressmen voted on three measures: the already abandoned military-aid proposal, a Democratic alternative providing $14 million for civilian aid and peacekeeping expenses, and a Republican proposal similar to the one adopted in the Senate. The Democratic measure passed its initial vote, 219 to 206. Republicans tried desperately to supplant it with their Administration-approved compromise, and they almost succeeded. When the final tally showed 215 against...
...drawing." This is an understatement, if anything. It takes the eye a while to realize that each line in this drawing, though given the incisiveness and spring of a mark etched with a point, seemingly carved into the paper, is in fact done with the tip of a brush; the delicate gradations of cross-hatching, which do not merely record patches of light and shadow but carry the eye around the forms with irresistible energy, represent an extraordinary alliance of analytic thought and manual control. Not all the drawings in the show are on this inspired level (how could they...
After emerging from a nearly four-hour meeting with Gorbachev in the Kremlin, the lawmakers responded as though they had sat through a bravura performance. House Speaker Tip O'Neill gushed, "I was tremendously impressed. He appears to be the type of man who would be an excellent trial lawyer, an outstanding attorney from New York. He's a master of words, and a master of the art of politics and of diplomacy...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill asked Mike Mansfield, the former Senate majority leader now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, to deliver a blunt message to the Japanese: "They better make some concessions or they're in trouble." Some legislators grew positively bellicose. "We are in a war," declared Democratic Congressman Beryl Anthony of Arkansas. "After this passes we're going to have to load the gun and put some real bullets in it." Editorialized the New York Times: "The Japan-bashers are on the march...
Acting on a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, 40 Costa Rican security agents swooped down last week on a luxurious ranch-style home in the capital of San Jose. Inside they found $40,000 in cash, $150,000 in traveler's checks and a gold-plated pistol. They also discovered Sara Cosio Martinez, the 17-year-old niece of a Mexican politician, who had apparently been kidnaped earlier this month. Best of all, the police arrested Mexican Drug King Rafael Caro Quintero, 32, also known as El Chapo (Shorty). Said U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese: "We're dealing...