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...opponents remain confident that Congress will refuse to renew the funding. "Even after six days of Ollie North, there is still no clear majority in favor of contra aid," said Michigan Congressman Dave Bonior, chief deputy Democratic whip. "I think we have an excellent chance of cutting off aid." Predictions of a complete cutoff were widespread last fall when it was first learned that the Administration had been circumventing congressional restrictions on support for the rebels. But lawmakers now admit that any new aid package must be considered apart from the scandal. "With North's testimony, there's obviously...
...continued rule troubles the Reagan Administration for two reasons. First, the White House justifies its support for the contra rebels primarily by pointing to Nicaragua's lack of democracy. Administration credibility would suffer if the U.S. appeared to be too cozy with dictators. Second, Noriega's attempts to whip up anti-American sentiment and to court countries hostile to the U.S. raise worries about the Panama Canal's future. "Can you imagine what it would be like to have the canal in the hands of a Lebanon-like country?"asks a U.S. official. Whatever pressure the U.S. decides to bring...
...Tory who had cut and run for England when the cannons fired and only came back, as he put it, "to make a fortune by Washington alone; I calculate upon making a plurality of portraits." He did not die rich, but he was said to be able to whip off a Washington on demand in two hours flat. Stuart's diction was as fluent as Peale's was meticulous and creaky...
...Nathaniel are hard. "There's an enormous tug at your heart come the end of the day," she says, "because there's this little person you want to see, and who wants to see you." One plus about a tug at the heart: it beats a crack of the whip as an incentive to get the job done and get home...
Using his powerful positions not only as Speaker, but as a member of the House Rules committee from 1954-72, majority whip from 1971-72, and majority leader from 1972-76, O'Neill unabashedly promoted the interests of the Eighth Congressional District...