P113 CEEFAX 113  Sun 19 Dec  14:42/47
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 The lone Republican Senator blocking   
 an emergency Bill to raise funds for   
 the United States government gave up an
 attempt to talk all night in the Senate
                                        
 North Carolina Senator John East, who  
 is crippled by polio, "egan his speech 
 just as the Senate prepared to vote, in
 order to express opposition to a rise  
 in the tax on petrol.                  
                                        
 The emergency Bill would restore the   
 government's legal right to spend      
 money, which lapsed at midnight on     
 Fred!y. It includes junds for producing
 the MX missile.                        
                                        
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