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Congress is also expected to give Carter's fiscal 1980 budget some rough handling. Quips G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable of New York: "It's going to be a Republican Congress-full of Democrats." House Speaker Tip O'Neill has been fretting that if Carter trims too much from the budget, there will not be enough for Congress to slash to impress the folks back home. Yet whatever Carter cuts will evoke outcries from some special interests that are sure to be used to good advantage by the man the President fears the most, Ted Kennedy. In talking...
...hoopsters' next tip-off will be against Dartmouth on Friday...
...final moment, when the White House called the congressional leaders down to the Roosevelt Room to tell them about recognizing Communist China, House Speaker Tip O'Neill leaned over to Vice President Walter Mondale and complained, "You should have consulted us." In fact, several members of Congress were consulted in an ambiguous manner that did not reveal the negotiations. But the White House will draw further away from sharing its critical confidences because it has grown increasingly aware that surprise and drama can be important factors in presidential momentum...
...station will rain down in a shower of some 500 fragments along a track up to 6,440 km (4,000 miles) long and 160 km (100 miles) wide. Its location: somewhere in a broad, globe-girdling belt as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as the tip of South America. About 75% of that area is water, and much of the land is sparsely inhabited. Thus the danger is slight; NASA believes that "the probability of injury or damage is less than that from meteorites." Astronomer Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory concurred, saying that there...
...that since she had taken delivery, it was her problem, not the post office's. He suggested calling the Detroit police bomb squad. The bomb squad soon arrived with eight squad cars and an armored truck. They took the suspected bomb in the armored truck to a remote tip of Belle Isle in the middle of the Detroit River. There they wrapped detonating cord around the package and, as they say in the bomb business, "opened it remotely...