Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the June 30 cutoff for passage just three weeks away, the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution is still three states shy of the 38 needed for ratification. But supporters are not yet willing to call it quits. Heartened by a recent Harris poll showing that public support for passage has increased since January from 50% to 63% and a huge outpouring of money (more than $ 1 million a month in contributions to the National Organization for Women since December), ERA activists have intensified their last-ditch push for ratification. Says NOW President Eleanor Smeal: "Women want...
...presented fairly. The man had been informed in November 1981 that his benefits were being terminated, but he waited until April 1982, too late to protect his status, to make his appeal. CBS promptly rebutted this rebuttal, saying that the Ohio man and his lawyer had appealed the cutoff notice by phone and letter beginning in November...
Walters presented the same case to the military leaders, stressing that a failure to include moderate elements in the new government could lead to a cutoff of U.S. military aid. Apparently impressed, the generals reportedly put pressure on the politicians to elect Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, 56, a moderate banker with close ties to the army, President of the provisional government that is expected to be named this week...
...year now, Roman Catholic nuns and priests have gathered each Friday at the Federal Building in Providence to protest U.S. policy on El Salvador. In conservative Amarillo, Texas, Bishop Leroy Matthiesen is urging workers to quit the Pantex nuclear-bomb plant, resulting in a United Way cutoff of a $61,000 annual grant to Catholic Family Services. In Seattle, Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen is risking prosecution by refusing, as an anti-nuclear protest, to pay half his income taxes. San Francisco Archbishop John Quinn is asking his hospitals to ignore a Defense Department plan to allocate beds because, he says...
...Salvador but also the hopes of the Reagan Administration's entire Central American policy. A repressive right-wing government could be expected to change the junta's land and banking reforms and to multiply human rights abuses, which would undoubtedly lead in turn to a cutoff of U.S. military aid. Said Reagan: "It would give us great difficulties if a government appeared on the scene that backed away from reforms that have been instituted...