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...helicopters from the aircraft carrier identified the offending vessel as a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine of the Victor class. The 5,000-ton craft was limping home on the surface at a speed of 3 knots, under the escort of a Soviet cruiser flying a salvage flag. A telltale dent marked the spot where the submarine had grazed the bottom of the Kitty Hawk while trying to pass underneath. That is no easy feat; the huge carrier draws 50 feet of water...
...trial. Shifting the cost of expensive cases to agencies better able to pay is one solution to the problem. Massachusetts has been picking up local court costs since 1978, which means that the high price of the current barroom gang-rape trial in Fall River will not make a dent in the Bristol County budget. Since 1961, California counties have been able to recover part of the cost of budget-busting homicide trials from the state...
...policy is not changed, the flow of red ink will swell from $190 billion this year to $326 billion by 1989. Congressmen of both parties agreed that Reagan's election-year package, calling for modest spending cuts and small revenue increases achieved by closing tax loopholes, would hardly dent the deficit. Said Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania: "The President's budget is a retreat from last year's budget plan. There is not a lot of leadership." Grumbled Congressman Charles Roemer, a Louisiana Democrat: "Reagan is like a Louisiana bullfrog: all mouth, no guts...
Racists and other anti affirmative action people will be pleased to note that, even with a decade or so of those programs now being excoriated, only a tiny dent has been made in traditional injustices. For all the talk about the evils of affirmative action on the college level, it is rarely mentioned that one source, Education Week, estimates that half of all Blacks in college are actually in two-year institutions. (The National Center for Education Statistics puts the estimate at 38 percent.) A study of Los Angles Junior Colleges has shown that only 1 in 20 graduates...
...female undergraduate describes an inci- dent with her freshmen proctor whom she periodically consulted for advise. She reports: "Nearing the end of the first term he began to close the door when we'd talk-I didn't think much of it until one evening he more or less attacked me. Because of our friendship I tried to discuss the situation with him--he was cold to me after that evening and I stopped going to him for advice...