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...local courts. After lengthy debate, the Justice Department has charged Billie with violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Although Native Americans have been convicted of trading in eagles, no court has ever decided whether Indians, whose hunting and fishing treaties with Washington do not mention imperiled animals, are exempt from the act's provisions...
...riled even some members of Nakasone's party. Boasts Socialist Leader Takako Doi: "We are seeing an outpouring among conservatives angry with the sales tax because it violates Nakasone's election pledge not to impose new taxes." Nakasone retorts, somewhat lamely, that the long list of goods and firms exempt from the measure qualifies it as merely a "medium-sized" new tax, not the "large-scale"levy that he had promised to avoid. The opposition has vowed to transform a set of local elections, to be held in April, into an informal national referendum on the sales tax -- and Nakasone...
...laboratory -- and besides, it would be good to have an R. and D. program as a hedge against what the other side might do. The U.S. military, meanwhile, was conducting secret experiments with ground-based lasers, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff insisted that this program be exempt from any ban on development and testing. So in August 1971 the U.S. negotiating team proposed a ban on developing and testing "systems based on other physical principles." The only exception was for fixed, land-based systems...
...winning campaign does not come cheap. Two weeks ago the San Diego tax- exempt foundation formed to raise $15 million from individuals and sponsoring companies found itself $4 million short. That is about the same amount that the New York Yacht Club syndicate spent on its entire 1983 defense. Burnham appealed to the press, and the stories have helped bring in $1.3 million, including an additional $250,000 from an early backer, Budweiser...
...gradual halt after the election of Ronald Reagan. "The resurgence of racist feelings and continued illegal discrimination are fostered by the Administration's refusal to admit that racism may still be a problem," says Urban League President John Jacob. More specifically, he cites "its efforts to give tax- exempt status to segregated schools, its fight against extension of the civil rights law, its efforts to undermine affirmative action, to destroy the Civil Rights Commission, to stack the courts with right-wingers, its support for South Africa's apartheid government...