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...Idaho, skis and risk have always been a part of mail delivery. In the 1880s, carriers used 11-ft. skis to get over the high passes to reach the miners' camps. Three carriers died in avalanches. A fourth froze to death, his . bag jammed with Christmas mail. Arnold has crashed twice, once when the wind shifted wildly over a jury-rigged runway and put him into the trees. The second time, a crack developed in the exhaust system, carbon monoxide leaked into the cabin, and the pilot passed out. The plane's premature landing, fortunately, was again cushioned...
...right now," he confidently told two reporters standing near his bed. "I only had about 40 days to live. With this new heart I feel I have ten years." But last Thursday evening, as Schroeder sat in a chair eating dinner, his wife Margaret became alarmed when he abruptly froze and then fell unconscious. He had suffered what doctors at Humana Hospital Audubon called a "small but severe stroke...
Only a year and a half ago, the usually brimming California treasury had sprung a leak. Reeling from the revenue losses caused by Proposition 13 and brutalized by the recession, California was facing a deficit of $500 million. The state took drastic measures. It cut or froze social programs across the board and shrank its work force by 4,000. Energy spending was cut back sharply. Tax loopholes were plugged. Today, with its revenues buoyed by the recovery, California expects a budget surplus of anywhere from $889 million to $1.26 billion for the fiscal year ending next June...
...states have always had more stringent fiscal controls than the Federal Government. By statute or constitution, 49 states require some form of balanced budget (the exception: Vermont). Even so, the surpluses have not come easily. Many states fired employees and froze salaries. Expenditures on highways and other construction were postponed. The National Governors' Association (NGA) estimates that from 1981 to 1984, while federal outlays were increasing 10%, state spending went down an impressive 2%. Says Jesse Coles, South Carolina's budget director: "If the Federal Government would cut back as we did, we could make some progress...
Many disagreements remain. The Reagan Administration is especially concerned about Canadian defense expenditures. The country this year will spend $6.8 billion on arms, or 2.1% of its gross national product, well below the U.S. level of 6.8%. In the early 1970s, Trudeau froze the Canadian military budget and cut the armed forces serving with NATO in Western Europe from 10,000 to 5,000. Though the Prime Minister eventually increased defense outlays, the perception lingers in Washington that Ottawa is not paying its fair share. Mulroney has promised a 6% hike in. defense expenditures, but it is unlikely that...