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Dear_________: This is notice that I intend to remove you from your position of Air Traffic Control Specialist ..." So begins the letter, signed by Federal Aviation Administration supervisors- that has been mailed to more than 11,000 striking air-traffic controllers since President Reagan ordered them fired beginning Aug. 5. The Administration was relying on two solid legal justifications...
...cuts in federal aid will force states to do at least one of two politically unpopular things: curtail services or raise taxes. In a closed-door session, according to Arkansas' Frank White, seven out of 20 Governors confessed they had either just passed tax increases or intend to do so soon. Some states will suffer more than others. North Dakota, with its oil and coal revenues, will do just fine without the federal dollars. Boasts Governor Allen Olson: "We want to prove we can live without them." But in the Northeast and industrial Midwest, the new federalism is "cruel...
...Orrin Hatch called it "a fine choice." Reagan's close friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, was enthusiastic, and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said he was "delighted by the nomination." But South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was a bit more restrained. "I intend to support her," he said, "unless something comes...
...length about how far to go in shoring up the battered Polish economy, and how to coordinate their efforts. Reagan and his aides will also try hard to persuade the European leaders, who confront a rising tide of neutralist sentiment in their countries, that the U.S. does not intend to pursue a blindly rigid anti-Soviet foreign policy, but is receptive to eventual arms-control negotiations with the U.S.S.R. "The Europeans are worried that we are cutting off the lines of communication with Moscow," says a senior State Department official. "We must do a better job in articulating our attitude...
After the hearing, Sullivan revealed that Chapman had a "hit list" of other celebrities he had considered killing if he could not get to Lennon. The list reportedly included Johnny Carson and Jacqueline Onassis. "He did not intend to kill all of them," said Defense Attorney Jonathan Marks. "In the event he could not find A, he would kill B. He just intended to kill somebody...