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...White House rhetoric "has not demonstrably discouraged the Soviets from cracking down on dissidents. Although ailing Dr. Mikhail Shtern was released from a Ukrainian prison last week (and this may have some connection to the approach of the Vance visit), it might be argued that this was more than offset by the almost simultaneous arrest of Jewish Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, the 29-year-old computer expert who has been an unofficial spokesman for the human rights movement in the U.S.S.R. The officially controlled Soviet press continues to print vicious attacks on dissidents, U.S. diplomats and journalists. If anything, the shrillness...
Many African leaders had been irritated that their wholehearted support of the Arab cause against Israel gained them little in either preferential oil prices or cash aid. Earlier, Arab diplomats had flatly dismissed a proposal by Tanzania for $2 billion in Arab aid for black Africa to offset the rising price of Middle East oil. (Only Nigeria and Gabon are major oil producers, and most of their crude is sold to the U.S. and Europe for much-needed hard currency...
CHILD CARE provisions are broadened, allowing many more working parents to offset baby-sitting costs. Through last year, a parent or couple could deduct up to $4,800 a year in child-care expenses; now they get a maximum tax credit of $400 a child (limit: $800). The credit can be taken by parents no matter how rich; the old deduction dwindled for people with incomes of $35,000 or more, and stopped altogether at $44,600. The credit is available to people who could not claim the deduction: for example, couples consisting of one worker and one student...
Once the reserve fund is high enough to pay for any potential malpractice suits, the money will be used to offset increases in medical costs, Botts added...
...Massachusetts Restaurant Association, which is also supporting the 3 per cent reduction, said that the passage of the bill would encourage more persons to dine out and the increased restaurant revenue would offset the lower tax rate...