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L.B.J. might have appreciated the upstart actor turned politician. Some indestructible core of optimism that was forged in the mad '20s and the Great Depression surged in Johnson, as it does in Reagan. One night Johnson ordered his aide Richard Goodwin to redesign the U.S. to abolish disease, ignorance and poverty. Goodwin wrote it out on his Smith-Corona, and Johnson gave it voice at the University of Michigan stadium. Reagan was a bit more in scale than the flamboyant Texan last week, but his people in his arena, a joint session of Congress, cheered and whistled...
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Reagan plans to abolish the act's public service employment programs, which would cost more than $3.7 billion next year. They pay the salaries of 1,600 employees in city government and nonprofit agencies in San Francisco alone. Arkansas may lose as many as 2,500 workers, while New York City will dismiss 11,500. "Most of ours will end up going back on welfare," complains Ronald Gault, New York's employment commissioner. Yet of all Reagan's budget cuts, the controversial CETA program may be among the least missed. Says Cleveland...
...more, if the Reagan Administration succeeds in its plan to abolish CETA programs across the nation. In Erie, Lilley is one of 500 people currently paid by CETA and working for such nonprofit agencies as the Y.M.C.A. and the Red Cross or learning job skills in local training programs. In addition, CETA funded summer jobs for 500 of the city's youngsters last year. In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Erie will receive $5 million from CETA -a welcome transfusion for a decaying industrial city that is hemorrhaging jobs. The unemployment rate in Erie now hovers...
...Riddle of Violence shows that violence can be superior to non-violence because force can stop suffering, while inaction or non-violence may allow it to continue. The Rhodesian climate--social, economic and ethical--obviated passive resistance as a successful method to end the subjugation of its Blacks; to abolish the inequity, violence was necessary. Now, Kauna warns, South African whites must decide by which measure they wish to succumb. For as this leader has now proven twice in his lifetime, the advocates of minority rule in Black Africa will inevitably face a day of reckoning
...subject of education sparks another resentful attack on the Republicans, whom Tsongas says must now follow through on their bold campaign promises to abolish cabinet-level departments and countless smaller agencies or face derision from the cynical electorate. Either way, he contends the GOP will lose. "It's one thing to be out in the bushes taking pot shots, and another to be in government with your hand on the till, ah...tiller," Tsongas says with an abrupt snicker...