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...East Germany new party leader Egon Krenz mounted a campaign to live down his long association with his discredited predecessor, Erich Honecker, who is under investigation for suspected abuses of power. Struggling to hang on to his job as the party prepares for a seminal congress on Dec. 15, Krenz announced that he favored rescinding the country's constitutional guarantee of a "leading role" for the Communist Party, opening the possibility of multiparty rule...
...bullet struck former White House Press Secretary James Brady in the 1981 attack on President Reagan and left him partly paralyzed, his wife Sarah became a leading advocate of gun control. Until last week, Brady had never used his plight to dramatize the issue. Finally, fed up with Congress's failure to act on even modest gun-control measures, Brady came before a Senate committee in his wheelchair to deliver a blunt plea. Congress, he said, was "gutless" for failing to pass the Brady amendment, which would require a seven-day waiting period so that police could determine...
...today, female doctors from 15,672 to 108,200, and female engineers from 7,404 to 174,000. The number of women in elected office has more than tripled since 1975 at the local level, though their presence has barely changed in the U.S. Congress...
Legislation on both parental leave and child care has been inching through Congress. Hopes for passing some version of the Act for Better Child Care (ABC) before year's end were dashed two weeks ago by political wrangling over how to finance it. A family-leave bill is also stalled. Policymakers in some states are not waiting for Washington to act. Seven states, including Minnesota, Oregon and Rhode Island, have already adopted comprehensive parental-leave laws; ten others have passed maternity-leave bills...
Although Administration aides spoke of considerable "arm twisting" by Bush, Cheney's turnabout reflected political and budgetary realities more than a major rethinking of U.S. defense needs. Faced with a lingering $110 billion deficit, Congress long ago abandoned Pentagon plans to increase defense spending each year. Overdue as Cheney's order may have been, the armed services responded by leaking hastily assembled cut lists, studded with base closings and hard-to-cut weapons systems that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine...