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Term limitation is not a new idea. The Continental Congress precluded members from serving longer than three years in any six-year period. More recently, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower advocated a cutoff, as did the 1988 Republican Party platform. First-time candidates, too, often warm to the notion, but most back off after election. For addiction to office, Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini takes the prize. A staple of DeConcini's successful 1988 campaign for a third six-year term was his claim that he could better fight for a twelve-year limitation if he was in the Senate...
...move signals the end of CIA involvement in the moribund struggle against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, since Bermudez was the last contra on the payroll. By severing its sole known tie to the rebels, the CIA acknowledged that the contras are finished as a fighting force. The cutoff also signals a small victory for Secretary of State James Baker. He wants the contras to negotiate an end to their dispute with the Sandinistas...
...military or National Guard liquidated 0.3% of El Salvador's population, and many far-right members of the President's ARENA party would like to resume that strategy. The rightists have reportedly stockpiled enough weapons and ammunition to pursue a terror campaign for several months after a cutoff...
Instead, he pushed the puck forward between thelegs of his Colgate adversary. Young swooped in toslide the puck across the crease beyond the reachof Gagnon, who had drifted out of the net to cutoff Melrose's angle. Weisbrod, streaking down thecenter, flicked the puck into the unprotected goalto give the Crimson a 2-0 lead. It was a perfectway to end Harvard's best period of the season...
Added to ethnic grievances in Armenia is the railway blockade, which began + two months ago when Azerbaijanis stopped allowing freight cars through railyards in Nakhichevan. The facility handles 85% of goods bound for Armenia from other Soviet republics, giving the Azerbaijanis a virtual stranglehold. The cutoff has not affected food supplies, many of which are home grown, and markets in Yerevan last week were stocked with fruits and vegetables. But fuel supplies were virtually nonexistent. Car owners waited in lines at the city's gas stations for days at a time. There were also acute shortages of many building supplies...