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...French were clearly spoiling for a showdown. President François Mitterand's government had on Aug. 10 warned the four French-based pipeline suppliers that they would be "requisitioned" if they bowed to U.S. pressure. Last week Dresser-France was told that it would be the first to be taken over because its Soviet contracts called for the earliest delivery of equipment. Complained John James, chairman of the Texas parent firm, which lost an eleventh-hour battle to block...
With blocking from the democrats, Reagan wins another showdown...
...more aware of the risks than Reagan. He drafted a prime-time TV speech to be delivered this week if the House and Senate are ready for a showdown vote on a tax and spending-cuts package that no one really likes. He postponed a vacation trip to California so he could have chummy chats with more than 150 legislators in the Oval Office and at Camp David. He sent letters to some 5,000 business leaders across the nation, seeking their support. He had the Republican National Committee dispatch some 30,000 pleas in his name for local party...
...Israeli arms, but the Soviets' much touted alliances with Syria and the P.L.O. produced little more than rhetoric. The Soviets' conduct also cast doubt on the widely held assumption that they were spoiling for a chance to put their supposed military superiority to a test in a showdown with the U.S. When the opportunity presented itself in Lebanon, Moscow bunked...
People for the American Way (PFAW) picked the forum for a showdown over texts because Texas, as the nation's second largest purchaser of schoolbooks ($60 million this year), sets a tone for books throughout the U.S. by influencing how publishers tailor their texts. Says Barbara Parker, head of PFAW's National Schools and Libraries Project: "Censorship activity is so well organized that the only way to combat it is through an equal amount of organization. If 93% of a community doesn't want The Catcher in the Rye, that's O.K. That...