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...last word before the vote belonged to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who related how, as a young Congressman in 1953, he had witnessed two nuclear explosions on test sites in Nevada. But that personalized testimony seemed not to sway many votes. On the contrary, by week's end some supporters of an immediate freeze were blaming the narrow loss on the failure of the House Democratic leadership to endorse formally the Zablocki measure...
...authorities this improved "American" has produced only headaches. Local police are often loath to arrest growers, especially when communities are dependent on pot income. Some even tip off planters to impending law-enforcement raids. In many states, the penalties meted out for growing grass often amount to little more than a wrist slap anyway. Even with stiffer sentencing, enforcement would remain difficult. Growers have become adept at hiding pot patches from airborne police. One farmer in Kentucky is growing plants on flatbeds that he can wheel into the barn at the first buzz of a light plane. Other growers protect...
...euphoria was soon punctured. Within hours the so-called Arafat document was denounced by Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came after a stinging cable from House Speaker Tip O'Neill instructing the congressional delegation, whose trip he had routinely authorized, to refrain from making statements in his name. It was only the beginning of the Americans' troubles. Representatives Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, both of Lebanese descent and both persistent critics...
...predawn passage of the measure was an unexpected consequence of a proposal by the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Robert Dole of Kansas, to improve the reporting of tips at hotels and restaurants. The Treasury Department believes that perhaps $10 billion in tips is not reported as income every year. After his tip provision was defeated during...
HOSPITALIZED. Vladimir Smirnov, 28, Soviet 1980 Olympic gold medal winner in the individual foil; in critical condition and "clinically dead" after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...