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...people kept social discontent in check even as Aristide displayed no talent for governance. He promised food, jobs, justice; he delivered nothing. Three weeks ago, he ordered an official to broadcast the names of 1,000 citizens who should come to the National Palace to receive a $30 handout, worth a month's wages. Within hours a huge crowd mobbed the gates, demanding envelopes of cash. When the money ran out, hundreds invaded the Palace until police reinforcements forced them...
...spectrum handout is a classic example of how government subsidies live on after their rationales have expired. The giveaway was originally conceived by the Reagan Administration as a way to bolster American firms in a race with Japan to develop a new technology called High-Definition Television. Then hdtv was eclipsed by so-called digital television, which promises extra-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound. The Japanese are barely in the digital race, but the fcc decided to ladle out the frequencies anyway...
...handout's chief sponsors are Republicans Jack Fields of Texas, who chairs the House telecommunications panel, and Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. They argue that small TV broadcasters still need the subsidy, since they would be squeezed out of a spectrum auction by rich new competitors like AT&T, which can enter the TV business under the new law. Both large and small broadcasters are fighting back against Dole, noting that they will return the new channels after 15 years. Besides, they argue, without free airwaves they would have to charge viewers for digital programs...
...turns out that NBC and News 12 Long Island had run the story. Newsday did a cover piece called "Condom Handout." The principal heralded "a new era of condom availability." All in all, it was a big sensation topped by a press conference and a tour of the school nurse's office where the fish bowl of condoms is to sit. Everyone was pleased that they were saving the world from AIDS. But in the process, administrators missed the bigger picture of what's wrong with sex today...
...wasn't posturing for the independent Western man, he was lobbying for the cheap grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, grazing rights that in turn can be sold for several times their cost to private grazers. Sounds like a government handout to me. Carver chose his life-style of self-sufficiency. Fine. Stop whining about it then. BURT BRADLEY, Decatur, Georgia...