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Congress last week voted to exempt the program from the law that forbids U.S. distribution of ICA productions. Let Poland Be Poland was to be transmitted over the PBS satellite, but the 297 local PBS affiliates had the option not to air it. Among the stations that declined was KTCA in Minneapolis. Said Stephen Kulczycki, the Polish American vice president of KTCA: "It clearly violates our programming and journalistic standards. We turn down hundreds of requests a month to broadcast someone's propaganda...
Ronald Reagan has done a lot of nasty things--EI Salvador is me, and ketchup-as-vegetables, soaking the poor, and loose talk about nuclear war are others. But nothing lower than the announcement last month that segregated schools would be officially aided with tax exempt status. We knew that large parts of Martin Luther King's dream remained unrealized, that brotherhood was only a word in much of the country and for many of its people. But we thought the bloodshed in Sunflower County and in Philadelphia. Mississippi and Memphis. Tennessee, had at least brought the promise from...
SEGREGATION. In defending his decision to revoke an Internal Revenue Service rule barring tax-exempt status for racially segregated schools, Reagan claimed that "what we were trying to correct was a procedure that we thought had no basis in law." The thought was wrong. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1971 upheld a lower court ruling that the IRS had not exceeded its legal authority in prohibiting exemptions to schools that practice discrimination...
Authorities are counting on voluntary compliance. Morton Grove police are not launching an enforcement drive. Handgun enthusiasts could easily circumvent the law anyway by buying and storing their weapons in neighboring towns. Gun clubs and collectors of antique pistols are exempt from the ban. Indeed, Village Trustee Don Sneider knows that the effect of the legislation will be as much symbolic as practical. "Our little town can't change society," he says. "But we're making waves...
...city would lose control over rents in the building because removal permits exempt a landlord from provisions of the rent control guidelines...