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...idea of a black candidacy surfaced formally last winter, when the "black leadership family," a loosely knit coalition of black politicians, civil rights leaders and academics toyed with the notion of forcing the Democratic Party to allot funds for black voter registration. Soon thereafter, Jackson, a member of the group, started his own registration drive, calling it the Southern Crusade. Speaking in his characteristic evangelist's cadence as he moved around the country, Jackson would thunder to rapt audiences: "There's a freedom train a comin'. But you've got to be registered to ride." Jackson...
...Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a compromise giving the Administration $76.3 million in military aid for El Salvador for fiscal 1983, which ends Sept. 30. The Administration had requested $136.3 million, and the committee had threatened to allot only $50 million. The Senate panel also approved a military package of $76.3 million for fiscal 1984, only $10 million less than the Administration requested, and agreed to its full economic aid program: $140 million this year and $120 million...
...boiling debate on Capitol Hill over how many dollars the Pentagon should get in forthcoming budgets, a second controversy is being added: whether the Defense Department can be trusted to spend wisely the funds Congress does allot. Outside critics have long accused the military services of misleading, inefficient practices that cause huge cost overruns and long delays in delivery of weapons. Now similar criticisms are coming from within the Pentagon, and Defense officials have been unable to hush them...
...fault, perhaps, should not lie with the actors--for each possesses a certain degree of talent. Director Kevin Jennings simply does not allot the performers a sphere of sufficient directional interpretation in which to act well, nor a set on which to act well...
...year. National averages, though, can obscure almost freakish disparities between states. Inmates in Texas, at one extreme, build their prisons and grow 70% of their food, and so each prisoner costs the state only $3,577 a year. (Despite the free labor, the Texas legislature was forced to allot $96.5 million for prison-building for this year.) At Delaware's new maximum security facility, the annual cost per inmate is upward...