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...states came out $20.1 billion net losers in their dealings with the Treasury. Meanwhile, Southern states received $12.6 billion more from Washington than they paid, and the West cleared more than $10 billion. Other figures show a similar disparity: defense payrolls and contracts averaged $282 per person in the Northeast, compared with $368 in the South and $565 in the West. In a gentle debate with Busbee at the White House conference, New York's Senator Daniel P. Moynihan quipped: "Our armed forces are clearly preparing to fight the next war in Nicaragua, or at least some place where...
...liberal Democrats, who else is there? It is difficult to take Pat Moynihan, who periodically sounds like a candidate, seriously as a Carter challenger. Moynihan's flamboyant style is simply too many provincial and potentially too offending to too many voters for him to fare well outside the industrial Northeast. Moreover, his belligerence against the Soviets and Third World countries during his stint as United States U.N. ambassador under Gerald Ford and his recommendation of "benign neglect" toward blacks while serving as a White House adviser to Richard Nixon, make him the antithesis of what many liberals would seek...
...major blizzard is burying the Northeast, with winds gusting up to 92 miles an hour and a snow accumulation of eight to 16 inches projected for the Boston area, the National Weather Service said last night...
...Selassie in 1974, Moscow saw a chance to weaken U.S. influence in the area and for some reason thought it could curry favor with its new friends in Addis Ababa without antagonizing Somalia's President, Mohamed Siad Barre, who had been the Kremlin's closest ally in northeast Africa. But angered by Moscow's growing involvement with Ethiopia, a traditional Somali enemy, Barre kicked the Russians out of his country last November and closed down the big Soviet military base on the Red Sea at Berbera...
...other parts of the country the number of applicants stayed the same or rose slightly. In the Northeast the majority of increases were in the number of female applicants while the number of males remained approximately the same...