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...central issue in this battle, as in most Washington disputes, is money. Pentagon budget planners accuse the Navy of waste and mismanagement and of failing to set priorities among its various missions. The Navy's $41 billion slice of next year's proposed $126 billion defense budget is the largest allotted any individual military service and is an increase over this year's $39.5 billion. The admirals, however, are not satisfied. They correctly complain that inflation will turn this modest increase into an actual reduction. But what distresses them most is that shipbuilding funds, which they consider the backbone...
They need it. Saudi Arabia is a country one-fourth the size of the U.S., with a population somewhere between 5 million and 9 million (estimates vary wildly). Its oil reserves, far and away the world's largest, are virtually unprotected from potential enemies. To the north are the leftist Iraqis, equipped by the Soviet Union; to the south is Marxist South Yemen; to the east is powerful Iran...
Social Security is the largest transfer; last year's payments were $90.4 billion. In all, reckons Economist William Lawrence of Pace University, whose definition of the payments is broader, 1977 transfer payments were equal to 69% of all federal tax receipts...
...story granite headquarters of the Sun Life Assurance Co. in Montreal was once the largest office building in the British Empire, the secular cathedral of the English-speaking business elite in the world's second largest French-speaking city. Now it is a symbol of panic in the face of Quebec's threat to separate from the rest of Canada. Last week Sun Life's 1 million policy holders voted by a 5-to-1 ratio to transfer the headquarters to Toronto, Canada's bustling financial capital. Sun Life (assets: $5.5 billion) thus became the biggest...
...conference, written by Latin Americans but backed by the Vatican to cool the enthusiasms of liberation theology, has touched off angry debate. The bishops of Panama had earlier denounced the working paper, and last week, meeting near São Paulo, 230 bishops of Brazil−by far the largest contingent headed for Puebla−added their own resounding rejection...