Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate conferees will now hammer out a version of the tuition tax credit bill acceptable to both chambers, and one controversial provision is likely to draw spirited debate. The House version grants credits for private and parochial school costs. But in the Senate vote last week, a measure to extend the tax credits to families with children attending private or parochial elementary and secondary schools was shot down. Heavy lobbying and concern over the First Amendment's separation of church and state led to its downfall...
...point was that the new measures failed to extend integration in the fields of land ownership, education and medical care. Hospitals and schools remain segregated; last year the government spent $493 per capita on white schooling, but only $46 for black education. In 1977 the 48-year-old land-tenure laws, which divided the country between whites and blacks, were amended to allow blacks to buy some white-designated land. But so far only 25 blacks have had both the cash and the inclination...
...prominence has made the Comorans outcasts in black Africa. When Comoran diplomats showed up at the recent summit meeting of the Organization for African Unity, they were branded the "Denard delegation" and unceremoniously thrown out. Western nations that would like to help the Comoros are reluctant to extend aid to a nation dominated by a pack of hired guns. Says a Comoran official: "Our biggest problem now is how to get the mercenaries out and re-establish relations with the rest of Africa...
...should accept the Synod of Bishops not simply as an advisory body but as a responsible, decision-making organ of the church, and he should extend concrete competence to the episcopal conferences and the diocesan councils...
...says he would prefer to freeze pilots' salaries for a year, hammer out one basic contract with all eight fractious unions, get higher utilization out of the line's 16 planes and take advantage of newly expanded routes. The U.S. agreed two weeks ago to extend El Al's landing rights beyond New York City to four other cities. El Al will probably start flying to Los Angeles next April and later add Chicago, Miami and Boston. In November it intends to offer a no-frills, no-meals "holiday" class round trip between New York and Tel Aviv...