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...welfare system, the state is now denying increased child support to women who have more children while they are already on welfare. Georgia and Wisconsin have adopted similar penalties. "Even if you work at poverty level there's nobody that gives raises if you have children," says New Jersey Assemblyman Wayne Bryant, chief author of the welfare-reform plan. Early numbers indicate that the penalties may be having some effect. From August through October the number of babies conceived by mothers already on welfare was 2,398, down 452 from the same months in the previous year...
...effectively jailing him for a minimum of 25 years. Says its coordinator, Chuck Cavalier: "We had tremendous support before the Klaas case, but ((since Davis was captured)) our 800 number has got so many calls we blew out the voice-mail systems." (Not everybody is signing up, however. State assemblyman John Burton notes, "I don't think it's a good idea to load up the wagon with criminals that are felons . . . but who are not grave threats to individual safety...
...indictment sketched out the case, the plotters allegedly intended to kidnap and/or murder supposed enemies of Islam much as they had gunned down Meir Kahane, the virulent leader of the rightist Kach organization. The targets named included a New York state assemblyman ally of Kahane's, the state judge who sentenced Nosair, and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Two months ago, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali boasted that the conspirators had recruited a pilot willing to bomb Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo. In the U.S. future bombing targets allegedly included unspecified military installations as well as the George Washington Bridge...
...bigger complaint is the cost of social services such as welfare, medical care and schooling for immigrants and their children who have no right even to be in the country. Assemblyman Richard Mountjoy puts the cost to California at $3 billion a year. Though some illegals pay taxes, he points out that the money goes mainly to Washington, leaving the states to supply the social services from inadequate federal reimbursements. "The state is broke," says an aide to Assemblyman Gil Ferguson. "We've had a multibillion-dollar deficit three years in a row, and yet we continue to pay medical...
...candidates who have filed for the race -- apparently the largest number in the city's history -- are a bus driver, a banker, two millionaires, a disabled veteran, a railroad worker, a retired policeman, a plumber and an actor-tax preparer. The leading contenders include city councilman Mike Woo, state assemblyman Richard Katz and lawyer Richard Riordan. The biggest problem: fitting all the names on the ballot, which comes in seven languages...