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Mottoes aside, the Israelis still have far to go. In spite of the vote to cut the budget, Cabinet officials must determine where the $1 billion in savings will come from. Although each minister is expected to recommend trims in his own department, some officials contend that fiscal realities leave them little flexibility. Education Minister Yitzhak Navon, for example, faces a 12½% budget cut and may have to scrap benefits like free high school education...
While Brown will have to worry about Landry on offense-Scalise says he expects the Bruins to double team his offensive star just like every other team has done this year--it will also have to contend with Whitley...
Union officials are aware of this. They contend that increasing productivity through capital improvements and a more skilled labor force will compensate for the higher pay workers receive. In the long run, they hope to limit many auto imports with domestic-content legislation in Congress, which would require that all cars sold in this country contain a specified minimum percentage of U.S.-made parts. By opposing the movement of manufacturing functions to lower-wage countries, the union is fighting a rearguard action. It is the same battle that has already been lost by workers in the textile, toy, photographic, radio...
...wake of the Nazi Holocaust, the convention defines "any attempt to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group" as an international crime. The treaty has been approved by 93 nations. U.S. ratification has been blocked repeatedly by Senate adherents of states' rights, who contend that radicals might use it to prosecute segregationists, and by conservative groups that fear it would subordinate American law to international pressure. Reagan's belated support was announced the day before he spoke to the Jewish group B'nai B'rith, which strongly backs the convention...
...addition, the World Court at The Hague is expected to rule soon on a longstanding fishing dispute between Nova Scotia and the New England states. The U.S. has laid claim to all of the Georges Bank, off the Massachusetts coast, while the Canadians contend that about half the bank belongs to them. The contested area is rich in scallops and other seafood (the annual harvest totals some $75 million), and may also hold abundant reserves of oil and natural...