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...plan the President approved last week in nearly final form is the diluted successor to a widely heralded proposal first unveiled by the Treasury last November. The original plan, now referred to as Treasury I, was a breathtakingly populist document. It offended nearly every special interest. Only the truly sacred cows, like deductions for mortgage interest on family homes, were left unscathed. The package that the President will send to Congress, on the other hand, is a good deal less pristine...
These reactions stem from the discovery and authentication of a puzzling 1830 letter that is a much discussed, contentious issue in Mormon circles. The 637-word document contains one of the earliest accounts of Joseph Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon, the scripture that has equal authority with the Bible for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (world membership: 5.4 million...
...official Church News of Salt Lake City published the letter last month. It was written by Martin Harris, a farmer who lived near Palmyra, N.Y. Harris was Smith's first convert outside the prophet's family. Addressed to a Canandaigua, N.Y., newspaper editor who later joined the sect, the document describes a version of the foundations of Mormonism that differs markedly from the official account written by Smith in 1838. The letter, discovered in 1983 | and donated to the church last month by a Utah businessman, depicts Smith as a man influenced by folk magic and occultism. This appears...
...Notification to Nicaragua of Washington's intention to terminate the 1956 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the two countries. That document prohibits either country from restricting mutual trade; a year's written notice is needed for cancellation...
Currently, sophisticated software for the program has yet to be developed, but the system is being employed for word processing and standard document production, said John H. Willoughby, the project coordinator at the Center for PERICLES...