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...part because its slack eligibility requirements enable even moderately well-off people to qualify and make policing difficult. The system now subsidizes 19 million people, one out of every eleven Americans. Working families receiving stamps outnumber welfare households 55% to 45%. Conservatives, with Treasury Secretary William Simon in the fore, have attacked the system as a welfare ripoff. Even liberals are disturbed by the rush to food stamps by college students and workers on strike...
...stopped over in Alaska for a brief meeting with President Nixon), but he was dissuaded from doing so by the anti-Americanism of the Japanese left and the ill-will caused in 1971 when President Richard Nixon did not consult or even inform Japan be fore announcing a new policy toward China. To help ease that tension, President Gerald Ford went to Japan last November, and now the first Japanese imperial visit to the U.S. was meticulously planned to provide both nations with a graceful and rather old-fashioned diplomatic interlude...
...social level, the ex-colony's semi-Westernization has left it with some anomalies: tribesmen clad only in "ass grass" (leaves fore and aft hanging from a bark belt) push shopping carts in supermarkets, and spear-carrying warriors in the hills go into their occasional battles with blaring transistor radios strapped to their bodies. On a political level, the latest fad is independence-and not just from Australia. Prime Minister Somare's new government is already plagued by two separatist movements...
...their part, American tourists seem considerably more subdued than the caricature Midwesterner abroad who demanded his bill in "real money." "They argue over checks less often," says Jean Bruel, owner of Bateaux Mouches, the famed sightseeing boats in Paris. "The; now ask you if you speak English be fore they talk to you in English. They no longer assume that they can pay you with a credit card or a traveler's check but ask you first...
...headlights that beam vaguely, duskily across the spread of road and desert that lap across each other here, where the march of flourescent poles has not yet reached. Catching our headlights in smoothflowing creaminess, the antlers pierce mutely our forward fall: motionless, steady in their chrome cage, at the fore of our seamless void, too strong, too immutable in their decay for our quick-lipped, easy spun gasp of time...