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...there seems no way that the city can avoid dramatic cuts, unless the state government massively increases aid to local cities and towns. A flurry of requests and special bills seeking relief has gone to Beacon Hill, where the pleas await the decision of the Democratic leadership and King...
...retired Maui policeman. "The native Hawaiians felt that the only thing they had to hang on to was their land." In 1973 the first of several bills claiming reparations of 2 million acres and $1 billion was introduced in Congress. Hawaiian activists believe that any settlement will have to await the report of a Native Hawaiians Study Commission set up in the closing weeks of the Carter Administration...
Exclusionary hearings, part of a standard process for immigrants whom the INS finds undesirable, have been held for 1,559. A mere 38 were granted asylum. Some 90% of the prisoners have been judged "excludable" and await deportation. Yet Cuba refuses to accept any Marielito, criminal...
...Bath Iron Works in Bath, Me., officials anxiously await the Government contract order for more new $200 million guided-missile frigates. At Litton Industries in Beverly Hills, executives are putting final plans together for a $64 million expansion to accommodate expected new Pentagon business. A few miles away in Hawthorne, Calif., the Northrop Corp. is preparing to quadruple production of the Navy's F/A-18 fighter plane to two per month...
These are some of the increasingly frequent signs of the growing boom in America's defense industry, as contractors await a sales bonanza from the Reagan Administration's military buildup. The sums of money involved are immense. The President wants to boost the Pentagon's budget from the $171.2 billion allocated by the Carter Administration this year to $226.3 billion in fiscal year 1982. That amount is twice as much as Saudi Arabia earned from crude oil exports last year and twice the gross national product of Switzerland. Moreover by 1986 Reagan wants to increase the defense...