Congress has suspended new American aid to Pakistan for six weeks while the Reagan Administration and legislators wrestle with the issue of Pakistan's nuclear development program.

And to hear Mr. Collins tell it, the 207th Legislature will be confronting some of the same intractable issues that legislators have been wrestling with for decades.

We found that policy advisers and some legislators were wrestling with the problem.

Disputes over this scuttled the bill last year, as legislators wrestled with the trade-off between safety and convenience.

Typically, notes Brian Zucker, head of the Human Capital Research Corporation, tuition goes up only when legislators are wrestling with budget deficits.

In just over five months, his panel must solve puzzles that educators, legislators and the courts have wrestled with for years, with little success.

In California, Gov. George Deukmejian and legislators are wrestling with how to pay for basic services in the face of voter-imposed restrictions on taxes and spending.

And the list also features a university president (Clark Kerr) who established the modern state-supported "multiversity" system that budget-conscious legislators are wrestling with today.

While legislators were wrestling with the problem, Michigan residents like Mr. Wilson were girding for a tax revolt.

In 1859 the legislators were still wrestling with (so far) insuperable objections to abolishing imprisonment for debt.