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...programs require an initial outlay of some $1.5 billion. After 1980, however, Carter's program would require little if any further funds. Tax credits, on the other hand, will drain an additional $5 billion by 1983. If Congress and the President are determined to spend this much money--the largest single financial aid to education bill in 20 years--then they might as well spend it right...
Yamit (pop, 2,000) is the largest Israeli community in Sinai. A trim town of white stucco bungalows, a modern shopping center and good schools, it was originally promoted by Moshe Dayan-then Defense Minister in Golda Meir's Labor government-as a potential regional metropolis of 250,000 people whose sheer size would make an Arab attack through northern Sinai impractical. Atzila Safrir, who operates a prosperous sidewalk cafe in Yamit, was infuriated by the way Jerusalem had reversed its support. "For ten years the government brainwashed me," she complained. "Now in two weeks they tell...
...country has more ties to the U.S., anti-American feeling now runs higher in the Philippines than at any time since they gained independence in 1946. Increasing nationalism has made many Filipinos resentful of the conspicuous signs of American influence. The U.S. embassy in Manila is one of the largest in the world, with a staff of 813. Even some of Marcos' opponents felt that the U.S. stance on human rights was a crude intervention in Manila's domestic affairs. Local businessmen complain that their coconut oil is heavily taxed when it enters American ports, while a similar...
Even though he is 72? an age that may now be considered risky ? Genoa's Cardinal Siri may wind up with the largest single bloc of votes on the first ballot at the new conclave, though he will almost certainly go no further. The Genoese arch bishop is a known foe of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council ("They will never bind us," he once said loftily of its pronouncements), and traditionalists who sympathize with his position have apparently supported him only as a gesture of conservative opposition. But Siri can not hope to add the additional...
...think about it, even if there were a nest of Nazis hiding out in South America, most of them would be pushing 80 by now, and quite incapable of the exertions required by this farflung, not to mention farfetched plot. You can't escape the thought that the largest danger they present these days lies not in the real world, but in the movie world. They are almost the last incontrovertibly evil figures left to tempt film producers, the last people we can all agree to hate...