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Nonetheless, the momentum for welfare reform is building rapidly. Since late November, welfare overhauls have been advocated by four high-level bodies: the American Public Welfare Association, a coalition of welfare administrators; the Project on the Welfare of Families, a group led by moderates of both parties; a task force appointed by New York Governor Mario Cuomo; and a working group of the White House Domestic Policy Council. The National Governors' Association has scheduled a vote Feb. 24 on a welfare reform plan, featuring work, training or study obligations for recipients, including mothers of children age 3 or more; approval...
...Federal Government has spent $1 billion since the 1960s in the search for a site that is environmentally -- and politically -- safe to bury high-level radioactive wastes from nuclear reactors. When it became apparent that the Department of Energy was dawdling over a hot issue, Congress in 1982 ordered DOE to get a deep nuclear dump in operation by 1998. Last year the department narrowed its candidates to three Western sites: Deaf Smith County, Texas; Yucca Mountain, Nev.; and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. The deadline of 1998 looked easily attainable...
Republican Congressman Guy Molinari of New York intends to press for further hearings on the matter. Molinari particularly wants to know whether the regulatory agency was unduly influenced by former high-level FAA officials hired by Continental. These include Clark Onstad, the FAA's onetime chief counsel, now Continental's vice president of governmental affairs in Washington, and Dewey Roark, the FAA regulations attorney who became a legal consultant to Continental in March 1984 and helped draft the airline's rebuttal to the Langdon report...
...Shah took a personal liking to the suave agent who spoke fluent Farsi. Cave retired from the CIA shortly after the Shah was overthrown. Yet on the arms-laden U.S. cargo plane that flew former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane into Tehran last May 28 to establish the first high-level U.S. Government contact with Iran in years, there again was Cave, representing...
Reflecting the importance that Moscow attaches to its relations with India, Gorbachev was accompanied by his wife Raisa and a high-level delegation that included Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Central Committee Secretary Anatoli Dobrynin and Military Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Soviet leader was welcomed as a "crusader for peace" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and cheered by schoolchildren and villagers who lined the route from the airport into New Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While...