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...would then file an answer, and a hearing date would be set. "We will resist anyone who tries to remove us from our lands again," vows Kakwirakeron. "They will be met by whatever force is necessary. We will be here when they leave." There, as the snows begin to deepen, the impasse for the moment uneasily rests...
...been successfully abolished; the volunteer Army is in fact oversubscribed. Congress has begun to reform its creaky, outmoded machinery. Nelson Rockefeller is likely to be confirmed as Vice President, perhaps providing the Executive Branch with the domestic authority it has so far failed to exercise. Overseas, where shadows deepen, there are still a few glimpses of good. The limitation on offensive weapons agreed upon by the U.S. and the Soviets is too high; but the point is that a ceiling has been set, and at least the agreement is an expression of each side's continuing desire for detente...
...Congress to increase the progressiveness of the income tax system for the express purpose of aiding the poor. Because lower-income people tend to spend a larger proportion of their income than higher earners do, the tax changes should encourage consumer spending. Thus the surcharge should not hasten or deepen a recession...
EARLY IN John R. Coleman's working-class sojourn, his boss sends him off to deepen a cylindrical hole to make way for a standpipe. Coleman dutifully shuffles off, squeezes his frame down into the muddy pit, and with cramped movements heaves irregular clods back up towards the light. Ill-aimed shovel-loads occasionally fall back on him, but Coleman admits to rather liking the task. And just a few feet away, he notes, another submerged laborer toils in another clammy shaft...
...Pentagon has asked Congress to appropriate $29 million this year to deepen the harbor, lengthen the 8,000-ft. runway to 12,000 ft., and build barracks for the 500 naval personnel who will eventually be stationed there. Such an investment is necessary, contends the Pentagon, to counter the Soviet naval presence in the area, which now averages 30 ships; the U.S. presently has eight ships, including the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, there. The Russian presence is expected to increase even more with the reopening of the Suez Canal. Then the Soviet supply line, from its Black Sea bases...