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...other side of the Atlantic, some of the relatives and friends of Flight 103's victims arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport unaware of the tragedy. Gazing up at the electronic arrivals board, they read an ominous message next to the flight number: SEE AGT. When they found a Pan Am agent, they were led into a lounge and told the news. One grief-stricken woman, shouting "My baby! My baby!," threw herself on the ground...
...tousle-haired politician from Rotterdam has not always commanded such high expectations. A former Minister of Economics and millionaire businessman. Lubbers earned a reputation in his early years in politics as a colorless, woolly-mouthed party functionary. But when Prime Minister Andreas van Agt resigned in the fall of 1982 for health reasons, he surprised many by naming Lubbers his successor. The new leader inherited a collapsing economy. Recession-pinched tax revenues were being drained by the most bountiful social welfare system south of Sweden, dispensing such goodies as 80%-of-salary unemployment benefits and $250 monthly stipends for school...
Turning to Congress, Wickham accused the legislative branch of having "aggravated" problems surrounding another of the Army's headache projects, the M-1 Abrams tank. Deliveries of the AGT-1500C turbine engines for the huge (120,023-lb.) vehicles have been so slow that the Army has been forced to cannibalize the power plants of field-tested units and use them on tanks coming off the production line. Under Secretary of the Army James R. Ambrose estimates that this rip-out process has cost "well over a million dollars so far." Yet a House-Senate conference committee refused...
...crackdown on loans to the Soviet bloc, in return for a partial lifting of the pipeline-equipment ban. The U.S. had tried to win such a promise at last month's Versailles summit. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week discussed with Dutch Prime Minister Andreas van Agt the credit restrictions they might impose...
With Reagan's approval, Bush presided over two Cabinet meetings, carefully taking his accustomed seat and leaving the President's chair empty to symbolize the temporary nature of his enhanced authority. The Vice President also conferred with Netherlands Premier Andreas van Agt and Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagiel-ski, who had come to Washington to see Reagan...