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...overcrowding and poor recreational and health facilities. Alexander has proposed that Tennessee contract the privately run Corrections Corporation of America to build and operate two 500-bed prisons, a suggestion that has been shelved by skeptical legislators. Before recessing last week, however, the legislature made some progress on an omnibus reform bill that would help depopulate the state's prisons of less dangerous criminals. One tactic: parole hearings would be scheduled for convicts who had served 95% of the time needed for eligibility. The necessary qualifying time for parole would continue to be lowered until the federally mandated limit...
Some possible provisions of such an omnibus trade bill might be relatively innocuous or even mildly helpful. Examples: more Government help for exporters, retraining of workers who lose jobs to imports. Other probable provisions look risky but not necessarily bad. For example, there is a strong move to tighten sections 201 and 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, which permit the President to put countervailing duties on subsidized imports and retaliate against the products of countries that restrict American exports. Such actions always pose a danger of hampering the flow of trade, but on occasion they can lead...
Such action would not be an appropriate use of the College's omnibus authority concerning "conduct unbecoming a Harvard student." Harvard can and should take steps to prevent the dangerous throwing of objects onto the playing area. However, unlike heckling in classrooms or at University-sponsored speaking events, shouting of any kind at athletic events neither impedes the game nor endangers the participants. Harvard should not use this document, or any other, as a pretext for regulating students' vocal behavior at athletic contests...
...both Congress and the Administration there is talk that these recommendations could be put into effect only by stuffing them all into an omnibus bill that would contain something for legislators of every ideological persuasion. In his weekly Saturday radio broadcast, Reagan announced that he would submit "a comprehensive plan for achieving the objectives set forth by the commission" and gave it not one but two names. Formally, and grandly, it will be called the Central American Democracy, Peace and Recovery Initiative. Reagan is unofficially calling it the Jackson Plan, after the late Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington...
...release, and Children of the Corn, based on a King short story, is also scheduled to open next spring. Meanwhile, the busy author is adapting his 1978 novel The Stand for Director George Romero, and has provided five original stories for Creepshow II, a sequel to the horror omnibus he wrote (and co-starred in) two years ago. Indeed, Hollywood seems ready to snap up virtually anything King sets to paper short of his grocery list-and there is no guarantee some enterprising director will not put that on celluloid some dark and stormy night. ("The cucumbers, he sensed, were...