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...Rollins, whose help Perot enlisted, Jordan volunteered his services several weeks ago after watching Perot on Larry King's TV show. More cerebral than his aw-shucks manner might suggest, Jordan went to work for Carter in the late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the blueprint for Carter's march from Georgian obscurity to the White House. Carter's campaign as an ) outsider running against Washington in 1976, notes his longtime friend Bert Lance, is reminiscent of Perot's pose as a new broom unsullied by politics...
...have a blueprint for radical change," he explains. "That would be, I think, unwise...
Call it the Ten Year Plan. Or call it a Blueprint for the Future. Call it whatever you want, but this 356-year-old university has never seen anything like it before...
There are scores of other issues -- large and small -- buried in the drafts of two primary Earth Summit texts: a five-page "declaration" and a 600-plus- page "blueprint for action" called Agenda 21. The shorter statement, originally called the Earth Charter, was supposed to be a soaring preamble, along the lines of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The longer agenda was supposed to specify the problems that the world will face well into the 21st century and how to pay for their solution...
There is some irony in this, since Congress four years ago passed what was supposed to be the welfare blueprint for the rest of the century. Drawing on dozens of state workfare experiments during the previous decade, the Family Support Act of 1988 was designed to channel able-bodied AFDC parents into the work force. Among other things, it requires every state to provide education and job-training programs and offers Medicaid coverage and child-care payments for up to one year after parents leave the welfare rolls to take jobs...