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...proponents were dealt a double blow in the Carolinas last week. In South Carolina the state legislature concluded its regular session without bringing the amendment to a vote. And in North Carolina, the state senate voted 27 to 23 to table the ERA, virtually eliminating any chance for passage there. The fight is now concentrated in Oklahoma, Florida and Illinois. In Oklahoma, where a ratification resolution was voted down in January, ERA supporters have collected 25,000 signatures petitioning Governor George Nigh to convene a special legislative session to reconsider passage. Nigh has rejected a special session for the moment...
Then in May, United Airlines dealt Boeing another blow by delaying delivery of 20 767 aircraft worth $900 million. United Chairman Richard J. Ferris cited the sluggish economy and fare wars as undermining United's ability to buy, plus congressional threats to kill or modify so-called safe harbor leasing provisions, which allow companies that do not need tax credits to sell them to companies that do. United would have thereby gained many millions of dollars, enabling it to buy Boeing's airplanes...
...associate professor of Government and author of The Nuclear Question and The Nuclear Revolution: Michael L. Nacht associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School, currently finishing a book on strategic nuclear questions for the Brookings Institute in Washington. Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor of Government who had dealt with proliferation issues as a State Department officials in the Carter Administration and Martin J. Sherwin, a visiting scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and author of A World Destroyed. The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance now writing a biography of physicist J. Robert...
...describes it as "the fundamental problem of the school." In fact, he sees the problem as so important that, in his memorandum, he recommends delaying discussions of the Michelman Report--a three-year evaluation of the Law School's curriculum and teaching methods--until after the faculty has dealt with the split Nesson says that the disagreements inevitably generated by a heated curriculum debate will only widen the faculty rift...
...came under the 1965 Secondary School Emergency Aid Act. Added to reductions in income from local taxes resulting from Proposition 2 1/2, "that hurts," Hunt says. School officials are uncertain what impact the block grants will have as that area of the 1983-84 budget has not yet been dealt with. They represent a "relatively small piece, but are important because they are a step in a certain direction. "They will not affect the racial balance in the schools because Boston is under local court desegregation orders...