Word: would
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...deal had been reviewed in the White House by the National Security Council and approved by George Bush, who had been urging the State Department to press ahead in the complicated claims-settlement process. At his press conference last week the President admitted to a hope that the agreement would eliminate a further obstacle to cooperation by the Iranians. "I'd like to get this underbrush cleaned out now," he said. "I hope they will do what they can to influence those who hold these hostages...
...House think Rafsanjani cannot yet deliver even if he wants to. "We're continuing behind the scenes to try to follow ; certain rabbit trails," the President said last week. "So far, they've ended up at dead ends." Earlier this month U.S. intelligence sources reported rumors that the hostages would be released on the anniversary of the embassy seizure. That hope also proved false. Now Americans must wait to see if the agreement in the Hague will amount to a further move in the hostage game, or just another dead...
...twice as common as was previously thought. A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that as many as one in ten people over 65 and, astonishingly, nearly half of those over 85 may have the disease. That would raise the number of Americans thought to be afflicted from 2.5 million to 4 million. "I was astounded," said Dr. Eric Larson of the University of Washington, who wrote an accompanying editorial. "Still, as with any startling finding, it needs to be confirmed...
...revive Bush's cherished reduction in the capital-gains tax, Senate Republicans considered attaching it to the debt-ceiling legislation. Majority Leader George Mitchell, increasingly playing the role of an unyielding Horatius at the Bridge, blocked them. Democrats similarly toyed with piggybacking onto the debt bill measures that Bush would veto if passed separately. Both sides backed off only when the nation was on the brink of insolvency...
Bush's threat was undermined a day later by his own Defense Department. Pentagon Comptroller Sean O'Keefe told the Senate Armed Services Committee that an $8.1 billion cut in defense would result in a 10% loss in U.S. combat readiness, an unacceptable political risk...