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Party leaders had argued that passage of this purely "humanitarian" aid bill would have lessened chances that Reagan could come back to Congress soonwith a request for weapons and ammunition tosustain the Contras...
Beyond Walsh's attack at the hearing, Gardner also said the Councillor had used parliamentary tactics to delay the group's public testimony. Although a hearing is customarily granted within about a month and after one formal request, the CTU testimony was tabled for two-and-one-half months, and a hearing was not set until the group had sent three letters requesting...
Although the new budget request is a refreshing change from the Administration's past policy, the motives are suspect. This is a crucial time in the nation's future, when education is critical for restoring America's economic health. And with progress on civil rights and fighting poverty stalled, the federal government must provide aid for all low-income and minority students to ensure them equal access to college and jobs. With so much at stake, a college education should not have to rely on the political calculations of presidential candidates...
...life, British Novelist Barbara Pym (1913-1980) defined the "immortality most authors would want -- to feel that their work would be immediately recognisable as having been written by them and by nobody else. But of course, it's a lot to ask for!" Her extravagant request was answered. In this last collection -- all or parts of four unpublished novels, plus four stories and a radio talk -- the unmistakable Pym piquancy is everywhere. It mocks a self-centered woman in the 1940s as she awakens: "Something unpleasant had happened. And then she remembered. It was the war." It characterizes a Hungarian...
Affluenza victims often go to great lengths to hide their privileged status. Swanee Hunt, the daughter of Texas Billionaire H.L. Hunt, kept her identity secret from schoolmates. Marriage and a change of name were not camouflage enough; at her request, she and her husband moved to Europe. "I spent a lot of years trying to escape," says Hunt, who now lives in Denver. As a student at Yale, Boston's Pillsbury regularly denied any connection with the well- known name and steered clear of talking about his exotic vacations. "It was a question of coming back from African safari...