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EVERY YEAR since 1973, bills have been proposed to repeal or modify the War Powers Resolution. Not one has become law. The most recent effort to fix the flawed legislation was an amendment proposed by Sens. Robert, Byrd (D-Va.), Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), John Warner (R-Va.) and George Mitchell (D-Maine) in May 1988. The amendment would have made two major adjustments...
...work moved north after the Postal Service decided to farm out the job to Stamp Venturers of Fairfax, Va. The firm, in turn, apparently decided that no printing company in the U.S. could perform the work. But patriots, take heart! The stamps will be printed on American-made paper...
...estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle for getting rich, rather than as just shelter, and it became an obsession. Author Ann Beattie, a chronicler of the baby boom, fled Manhattan in the mid-1980s for Charlottesville, Va., declaring, "I could not spend the rest of my life listening to people talk about real estate. It's a constant, boring, hysterical subject...
...have been penned by a well-known writer whose name has not been disclosed. Besides the artist and the author, only CIA director William Webster knows what the top-secret phrase says, according to an agency spokesman. The CIA does not allow the general public to visit its Langley, Va., compound, so Kryptos is on view only for employees or authorized visitors. Ironically, the Sanborn sculpture constitutes what the CIA calls its "Tribute to Information...
...year-old girl and her 44-year-old mother were brutally murdered in Norfolk, Va. Their sometime housemate, a drug addict named Joe Giarratano, woke up from a stupor, saw the bodies and confessed to the killings. Last week, just three days before Giarratano was scheduled to die in the electric chair, Governor L. Douglas Wilder commuted his sentence to life in prison and offered him the chance to seek a new trial...