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...Regan, then Secretary of the Treasury, to prepare recommendations that would be released after the election. That directive was widely derided as a transparent ploy, but it worked, thanks partly to some unwitting assistance from Democratic Nominee Walter Mondale. Bradley and Gephardt had visited Mondale to plead that he adopt tax reform as a major issue, but the nominee declined, preferring to plump for a tax increase that turned out to be about as popular as, well, a tax increase...
...Colorado, an outspoken leader on the issue, echoed the idea of English as this country's social glue before a congressional committee. "We should be color-blind but not linguistically deaf," he said. "We should be a rainbow but not a cacophony. We should welcome different people but not adopt different languages...
...helped draft the treaty as well. It would in effect render the ABM treaty meaningless and open the way to a defensive arms race in space. That is just what the Pentagon wants and what the Soviets are determined to prevent. After & months of wrangling, Shultz persuaded Reagan to adopt a cumbersome compromise: the U.S. would claim that the Pentagon's "permissive" interpretation of the ABM treaty was correct but that it would nonetheless abide by the more "restrictive" reading that prohibits anything more than research on SDI. Uneasy with the Administration's position, Congress has demanded access...
...Santa Catarina simultaneously swept down on the home of Lawyer Carlos Cesario Pereira, 40, a maternity hospital and a number of clandestine nurseries. Police recovered 20 children ranging in age from newborns to 3-year-olds, arrested seven suspects and detained 22 Israeli couples who were seeking to adopt children. The Israelis were later released because they apparently did not realize that the adoption proceedings might be illegal. Police claimed that Cesario was involved in the illegal adoption of Brazilian children by foreign couples, primarily Israelis...
...time extended low-interest, long-term loan plans to parents in the highest income (more than $250,000) bracket. Though such help for the haves may seem a bit anomalous, tuition experts like Tally Wickstrom, director of financial aids at Purdue, point out that colleges have simply begun to adopt the funding techniques that have long applied to other large consumer investments, like housing. "If I walked into a bank and asked for a housing loan," says Wickstrom, "and the officer told me, 'O.K., but pay it back in four years,' I'd chuckle...