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...Giscard's France, parliament has relatively little power. It has managed to discourage Giscard from pursuing some of his legislative projects. Since only 119 members of his 274-seat ruling parliamentary coalition are formal Giscard supporters, he has on occasion tactically withdrawn from a potential fray. Giscard's Premier, Raymond Barre, however has used special constitutional powers to ram through government budgets over the grumbling of Gaullist allies. Says Giscard: "I have exercised my powers as they are conferred by the constitution. These critics are trying to weaken power. I say it bluntly: those who want weak power...
...team performed a procedure known as peritoneal lavage. Surgeons Benjamin Aaron and Joseph Giordano, who headed up the trauma team, made a small incision just below the President's navel, inserted a tube and infused several liters of fluid, filling the abdominal cavity. Then the fluid was withdrawn and examined for blood. It was clear, indicating that Reagan had suffered no injury to abdominal organs...
Crimson: There have been reports that some of those advisers may be withdrawn-over the summer. What are your plans...
...other, but there'll be some rotations. Some people will complete particular assignments, and perhaps there will be some training done outside the country, and reasonably informal kind of shifts But I don't know when the actual training mission will be formally completed. They'll be withdrawn when that time comes. There isn't any particular timetable. There is a need to do a job, and that's a job which the EI Salvadorean government wants, and that's what they're down doing. I don't really know how long it will take...
...span of a subway car is 35 years, 567 of the MTA'S 8,500 cars are more than 30 years old. About a quarter of them are out of service at any given time for maintenance. Soon after shiny new cars were introduced, they had to be withdrawn when they developed cracks in their undercarriages. Admits MTA Member Steven Berger: "The only way at this point to fix things is to shut down the system for a week and call in a faith healer...