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...requires would simply encourage other cities to take the same route of overspending. The waste in New York's budget is indefensible, and no-strings-attached aid will not help the city excise the triple cancer of patronage jobs, greedy municipal unions and a welfare system that is well-nigh out of control...
...began when the Marxist M.P.L.A. sought to expel the pro-Western F.N.L.A. from the capital. The M.P.L.A. won the round, but the F.N.L.A. has since been massing for a counterattack at Caxito, 35 miles north of the city. Meanwhile, 600 F.N.L.A. troops are holed up in Luanda's nigh impregnable 16th century fort, São Pedro da Barra. In the north, the F.N.L.A. tightened its hold on Malange, and at week's end was moving toward the diamond-producing area of northeastern Angola...
...expected, both teams played a fast skating, clean game. Unlike the previous nigh against Cornell, there was no cheap stuff between the two squads. Each team had a healthy respect for the other, as though there was an unwritten agreement between the players to avoid needless rough stuff in the corners and around...
...Ford and more heavily weighted in favor of lower-income groups. But the young Democrats insisted on adding an amendment to repeal the oil-depletion allowance that would save the oil industry some $2.5 billion this year in taxes and has long been a favorite-and, until now, well-nigh invulnerable-target for congressional liberals. The amended bill passed the House by the enormous margin of 317 to 97. In the Senate, however, the oil-depletion amendment is certain to set off a long and acrimonious fight that might delay the tax cut until mid-April or even longer...
...ring up the best record in the N.B.A. Should they finish ahead of the Celtics-and everyone else-they will earn the advantage of playing the extra game of a seven-game play-off series on their home court. That is no trifling benefit. The Bullets are well nigh unbeatable at home with a record of 27-3 and a winning streak that by last week had stretched through 20 games...