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Vellucei said that he "blew a fuse" when a request for $90,000 for legal fees in the dispute came before the city council last fall, adding that a settlement "was my first priority upon being elected mayor" earlier this year...
...long, uninhabited, guano-covered Caribbean rock. The quarrel goes back to an 1856 congressional act allowing U.S. citizens to claim certain islands in order to mine sea bird droppings, which are used as fertilizer. Negotiations to solve the dispute broke off in 1979 when the Haitians refused a U.S. request for fishing rights. Only the seagulls were relieved...
...Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. "We don't want any of that damned crowd around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request) via a flack firm. The reason for saying no to these wolves is plain and very strong ... Why should we be in their goddamn memo traffic as exploitable or exploited 'resources...
...fall of 1980, the conservative Heritage Foundation, at the request of incoming Reagan Administration officials, prepared a provocative critique. One target: the National Endowment for the Humanities, the agency created by Congress in 1965 to provide federal grants to humanities projects. Among other criticisms, the foundation's report excoriated the NEH for funding "grant proposals whose character is at best faddishly innovative," and warned against "federalizing" the nation's cultural programs and institutions. "The NEH," the policy study said, "must not become the fat boy in the canoe, likely by its bulk to upset the delicate balance between...
...documentary two weeks ago examining the hardships of the poor and disabled under the Reagan Administration drew a harsh 40-minute denunciation from the White House's communications director. The Administration formally requested that CBS grant the White House time to rebut the inaccurate charges it said the network made in the show, which spotlighted the plight of several families hurt by the Administration's cuts in social spending. CBS, arguing that its depiction was accurate, refused the request. The Administration's complaint remains lodged before the Federal Communications Commission, whose controversial "fairness doctrine" could require the network to give...