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...Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...
Nominated by a committee of professors and journalists, the Nieman fellows attend classes and seminars during their one-year stay at Harvard...
...Democratic and Republican Administrations going back to 1961) warned early last week that "the huge budget deficits now in prospect . . . could lead to years of financial turbulence and industrial stagnation." The group, assembled by Peter G. Peterson, who was Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon Administration, proposed a one-year freeze on Social Security and other entitlement benefits, a $25 billion cut in defense outlays by fiscal 1985, new taxes on oil, gasoline and natural gas, and possibly even a delay or reduction of the 10% income tax cut scheduled for 1983. Warned the six: "With each week of delay...
Debates over what to do about Social Security in forthcoming federal budgets initially focused on quick, temporary ways to conserve cash. Among the suggestions: a one-year freeze on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) in Social Security pension benefits and many other federal programs, an idea first put forward in February by Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, which would save $11.3 billion; and a three-month delay in the COLA that might be paid in July 1983 (estimated savings: $3.3 billion at an 8% inflation rate), a plan advanced by Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker in an unsuccessful...
...purer. The older I get, though, the more I wonder. The NCAA needs to do something now, before even its pretense of amateurism fades. Sure, the ruling body just hit USC with a two-year TV ban for its indiscretions, but will that be any more effective than the one-year disqualification from bowl appearances imposed on the Trojans...