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STUDENTS ON CAMPUSES around the country recently have forced several controversial figures to cancel or cut short speeches U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, for example, was driven from a lecture platform at the University of California at Berkeley, forced to withdraw is commencement speaker at Smith College when her could not be guaranteed, and repeatedly interrupted while addressing at University of Minnesota group. In an attempt to end such disruptions, a coalition of college presidents, faculty members and students led by the American Council on Education (ACE) last week issued statement urging the academic community...
Several national education lobbying groups with which the University is affiliated last week announced a campaign to prevent campus demonstrations which have forced controversial speakers such as U. N. Ambassador Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick to cancel addresses...
...callously opportunistic. He was endangering passage of a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to jobless workers in 27 states and create an estimated 400,000 jobs. In behalf of the nation's well-heeled banking lobby, he hung an amendment on the jobs bill that would cancel the scheduled July 1 start of the withholding of 10% of income from interest and dividends. This is a reform designed to reduce tax cheating and raise nearly $11 billion in revenue in the next three years. Said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole: "This pits the truly needy versus...
Rachel complained to the IRS about the penalty and got the agency to cancel it. In the course of the talks, she was amazed to hear an IRS employee tell her on the phone, "Frankly, my dear, nobody reports tips." She never did so again. Starting this year, however, restaurant owners who have ten or more full-time employees must withhold 8% of gross sales as an estimated tax on tips, and the result, says Rachel, is "fury...
...Chancellor also knows that, according to polls taken during the campaign, nearly 60% of his citizens oppose the new weapons. Kohl has obliquely suggested that he hopes for a softening of the current U.S. bargaining position in the Geneva arms talks away from the "zero option," the offer to cancel the NATO deployment if the Soviets dismantle some 340 SS-20 missiles already in place and mostly targeted on Western Europe. Having won his electoral war, West Germany's newly endorsed Chancellor is just as keen on governing in domestic peace...