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...major up-or-down votes, such as the budget and tax tallies of last year, rather than subjecting the plan to scores of amendments and piecemeal votes in the House and Senate. During the speech, Vice-President George Bush, who tried to banter with a grim House Speaker Tip O'Neill, canvassed the Democratic side of the aisle for signs of support. "Only Gramm applauded," the Speaker gruffly noted later, referring to Phil Gramm of Texas, co-sponsor of the President's budget bill last year. O'Neill later passed the word to his lieutenants that...
...Senate with Republican Dan Quayle of Indiana to sponsor a $4 billion job-training program. In the House, California Democrat Gus Hawkins has proposed a $5 billion training program that would allow local officials to use some of the funds to create public service jobs. House Speaker Tip O'Neill has criticized Reagan for the growing unemployment lines, but so far has not suggested a plan of his own. An aide to the Speaker may inadvertently have best summed up the Democrats' plight. "Our alternative is that the President should advocate an alternative," said the spokesman. "That...
...Crimson forwards had many chances of their own at the other end, but Colby's freshman goalie Susan Mead also proved impenetrable. With under two minutes to go in the period, a Liz Ward tip off Megan Berthold's slapshot missed the net by inches, and the game was still scoreless...
Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying machine guns, a 2,000-man Italian force combed northern Italy last week as the massive manhunt continued for kidnaped U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier. Acting on a tip, scores of officers swarmed over tiny Ponte Alto (pop. 91), searching dozens of houses and stopping cars on snowy roads, but they found no trace of the 50-year-old Army general who was abducted from his apartment in Verona on Dec. 17. The Italian government sent hundreds of reinforcements and alpine troops to join the search. At a roadblock near Padua, four suspected terrorists were...
...Hite, Walter Gilbert, Taffy Zimbler and Boston's Boss White. But try as we might we can only wish pain To Ed Meese, John Belloste and Arif Hussain. We know the first choice of the Cliffe's prexy Horner: A place in the sun, far from her dark corner. Tip's son and Dukakis will meet tough campaigning, With luck, though, Ed King'll soon be complaining...