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...other friend, Robert Gardner, 43, a high school teacher in New Castle, is urging another tactic. Aided by hundreds of "English" volunteers, he has collected upwards of 10,000 signatures and hopes to get 10,000 more on petitions urging Congress to enact a law exempting all Amish from paying for Social Security. He has even written to President Reagan asking for his support. "The Amish," says Gardner, "are not a fly-by-night religion, just formed to avoid taxes. Legislation already exists which exempts an Amish individual from paying Social Security taxes when he is self-employed. The precedent...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner /The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer /The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché /The Dean's December, Saul Bellow /Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler /The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner∙The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché The Dean's December, Saul Bellow A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux The Villa Golitsyn, Piers Paul Read
...heads the largest of El Salvador's five major guerrilla organizations, the Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.). In 1980, British Author Graham Greene was impressed by Carpio when they met in Panama. The novelist pleaded unsuccessfully with the insurgent to spare the life of Archibald Gardner Dunn, the South African Ambassador to El Salvador, whom the guerrillas had kidnaped. Said Greene of Carpio: "His eyes, they are hard...
...Gardner said yesterday that Benacerraf's gift "reveals the intensity of his commitment and the quality of his leadedrship...