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...rising level of federal Medicaid reimbursement to the states, which helps pay for medical care for the poor, could be better controlled by pegging increases to the Consumer Price Index. The National Institutes of Health, whose budget has increased more than 50% since 1981, could withstand a 5% cutback without endangering vital programs...
...stampede to beat the cutback, lovers nervously pace in waiting rooms of municipal offices Monday through Friday, waiting their turn before robed magistrates. One Vienna registrar's office performs up to 17 ceremonies a day, each lasting 30 minutes. Says a harried clerk: "You can't rush those poor people through. They have a right to a little music and a nice speech on their most important...
Gorbachev arrives in Washington on Monday on his first visit to the United States. He and Reagan will sign the INF treaty on Tuesday and hold meetings through Thursday on a possible 50 percent cutback in strategic weapons and other subjects...
...year. One result of the trade imbalance: Nicaragua's foreign debt has risen from $1.6 billion when the Sandinistas came to power to more than $6 billion. Moscow, in a move seen as signaling its concern over Nicaragua's growing inability to pay its way, has announced a cutback in oil deliveries of nearly...
...have formally requested visa applications. Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union began in earnest in 1971. But after it peaked in 1979, Moscow drastically reduced the number of emigration permits the following year, claiming that many applicants -- even those who had worked at menial jobs -- possessed "state secrets." The cutback was a response to heated Western criticism of Moscow's December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan...