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Enclosed is my statement of [draft] registration compliance. Many things are upsetting to me about this addition to the financial aid application. I realize that it has been included due to recent federal regulation, and I am not going to blame the financial aid office for engineering the statement. I am writing to you, and sending copies of this letter to others, because I want to voice my concern...
...made by Pratt & Whitney: a turbine air seal for an F-111 fighter-bomber, for example, soared from $16 to $3,033.82 in one year. These findings touched off a broader study by the Pentagon's inspector general's office. Last week a leak of the resulting draft concluded that Air Force and Navy purchasing practices encourage exorbitant price increases on aircraft engine spares...
...optimism last week: an end to their mission seemed to be in sight. U.S. Envoy Max Kampelman helped set the tone as he returned to Madrid's sprawling concrete Palace of Congresses after consultations with Administration officials in Washington. Kampelman predicted international approval of a 35-page draft document that summed up, after 32 months of often desultory negotiation, the compromises reached at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). Within 24 hours, President Reagan himself announced U.S. backing for the agreement. Said he: "We will sign it with the hope that it will serve...
...document in question consists mainly of a series of commitments to hold, over the next three years, further international meetings aimed at addressing such issues as disarmament, international security and human rights. The Madrid draft agreement also includes the broad declarations of respect for human rights provisions that buttress the Helsinki Final Act. Among the values mentioned: freedom of religion, the right to form free trade unions, and "the freer and wider dissemination of printed matter"-a euphemistic reference to freedom of the press. Said President Reagan of the document: "Together with the Helsinki accords, this agreement sets forth...
...unconstitutional because he said it violated citizens' right against self-incrimination and punishment with out a trial Alsop ordered the Department to stop implementation of the law, which would have required students applying for federal financial aid to indicate on their aid form that they had registered for the draft. Students and college officials ignored the requirement accordingly, reasoning that, even if the Supreme Court overruled Alsop's decision, there would be no time to implement the law for the '83-'84 school year...