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When Congress reassembles next month for its postvacation session, New York Republican Seymour Halpern plans to introduce a bill providing for the reissuance of the $2 bill, which was discontinued in 1965. Thomas Jefferson's face used to adorn the bill, but Halpern will propose substituting the stern, ascetic profile of Susan B. Anthony, the matriarch of Women's Liberation. Halpern's idea has the endorsement of 32 co-sponsors in the House, 16 Governors and 22 women's organizations, including the 5,000,000-member National Council of Women of the U.S. and even...
Ominous Specter. Despite the President's disclaimer, the problem has been greatly accelerated by the war. Officially, the estimates are that between 26,000 and 39,000 G.I.s use hard drugs. New York Congressman Seymour Halpern, just back from Viet Nam, puts that figure as high as 60,000, most of them on heroin. There are an estimated 250,000 addicts in the U.S. Some authorities believe that if 75% of them supported their habit by committing crimes the cost to the country would exceed $8 billion yearly. With the return of the addicted veterans, the cost of heroin...
...also decided that there would be these other papers, too: a movement paper, a high school paper and whatever else people want," Halpern added...
...decided [at Wednesday's meeting] that the Mole, or something like it, should continue," Pete Halpern, a Mole staff member, said yesterday...
...Charles Halpern, one of three Washington lawyers handling the cases, adds: "The decisions offer a precedent for getting other hard pesticides off the market." Alternatives to DDT include nonpersistent pesticides, which break down faster in nature, and biological controls using insect predators to prey on pests...