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...protesters demanded that Kennedy cosponsor HR 4990, a bill initiated by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to authorize $15 million for new low-cost housing, but Kennedy refused. His press secretary, James Mahoney, said Kennedy supported a competing measure because he thought HR 4990 would leave too many decisions to the discretion of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
Kennedy is a cosponsor of HR 918, a measure that would keep rents low for poor families and would increase funds for housing assistance. Mahoney said the bill Kennedy prefers would authorize a sum "comparable" to $15 million but is more specific on how the money should be spent...
...Stewart said he was not satisfied with Kennedy's support for HR 918 because "it doesn't create new housing...
There is not a cheap note or a careless image, not an easy judgment or a forced emotion, in the 2 hr. 43 min. of Bird. It permits a man's life its complexity. It invites us to experience the redeeming grace of his music. And with its passionate craft, it proclaims that Eastwood is a major American director...
...modern man and futuristic equipment approach the once unthinkable 20-ft. pole vault, the 30-ft. long jump, the 60-ft. triple jump and the 2-hr. marathon, the benchmark most likely to fall in Seoul is the 8-ft. high jump. Sweden's Patrik Sjoberg and West Germany's Carlo Thranhardt shared a world record of 7 ft. 11 1/4 in. until last week, when Cuba's Javier Sotomayor soared 7 ft. 11 1/2 in. in Spain. At least three other jumpers, West German Dietmar Mogenburg and Soviets Igor Paklin and Gennadi Avdeyenko, are potential Olympic eight-footers. Sotomayor...