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...China remains livid over continued American arms sales to the independent regime on Taiwan. The week before last, Peking officials repeatedly urged a visiting delegation of Congressmen, led by House Speaker Tip O'Neill, to downgrade U.S. support of Taiwan. O'Neill's admission that he was unaware the issue was so sensitive utterly astonished the Chinese-and American diplomats as well. According to Peking, U.S. plans to sell Taiwan $800 million worth of weapons this year (vs. $600 million in 1982) represent a serious violation of an agreement signed last August in which the U.S. pledged...
...spill began in late January, when a storm toppled a rig in Iran's Nowruz oil field at the northern tip of the gulf. The well had already been damaged two years ago, when a tanker rammed the platform, causing almost 2,000 bbl. a day to pour into the sea. In March, Iraqi helicopter gunships bombed at least two other wells in the same oil field. Those wells began leaking up to 5,000 additional...
...specific proposals Hart forwards some trigger the suspicion that he is proposing them simply he cause they are new, not because of any profound understanding or support for them. His prosecutions on Tax-Based Income Policies (TIP) to control inflation and consumption taxes--rather than income taxes to reform the tax code, are both brief. Neither sections acknowledges the administrative barriers which would seriously erode such programs' implementation not do they address the political problems which have led many politicians and economists to write both proposals...
...recent Gridiron dinner, the President appeared onstage in a sombrero and sang a ditty in his uncertain baritone. The cold-eyed journalists leaped to their feet to cheer. "That's charm," said one of Reagan's close friends. A fortnight ago, House Speaker Tip O'Neill called a cease-fire in the budget war and asked Reagan up for lunch to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Reagan readily accepted. For a few hours there was nothing but sweetness. The next day they were back beating each other's brains out. Says O'Neill: "Away...
...sports cap the size of a manhole cover jammed down on his great shock of white hair, the American traveler stood by China's Great Wall and sang Danny Boy. Sure and begorra, it could only be that wandering curator of Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been...