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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have not yet even decided whether Donovan will be paid a regular salary (the legal limit would be $57,500) or serve on a dollar-a-year basis. Donovan will live in Washington and ask for a leave of absence from the corporate boards on which he serves. But first he will take a two-week vacation, traveling by barge through France...
...Bella Abzug and Andrew Young are the only two leaders of our time who have successfully transposed social movements into the electoral system. Cesar Chavez and Carolyn Reed [director of the National Committee on Household Employment] have redefined work and taken forward the movement to organize the lowest, least paid in the working force. And John Kenneth Galbraith is almost the only link between economic knowledge and the public...
...Jordan's first moves was to try to make peace with the congressional barons he has so studiously ignored. He made a pilgrimage to the office of House Speaker Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill, and was quickly paid back for an accumulation of insults that dated all the way back to Jordan's refusal to help O'Neill get good seats at Carter's Inauguration...
...world's leading rice exporter. Ironically, the country's farmers remain among the poorest in Asia, a factor that Kriangsak recognizes as a serious threat to internal security. The most oppressive exploiter of the farmer is Bangkok itself, which by government decree keeps the rice price paid to the farmer well below world levels. The "rice premium" has been a favorite tool of Thailand's military rulers. By lowering the urban consumer's cost of living, the Premier has ensured political stability in Bangkok...
...earn $636 a month. Their solution: a fund-raising drive to provide a $1,500 Special Police Fund from which to buy narcotics and pay informants. So far businesses, churches and citizens of Marlow have chipped in $1,000. Last week, using some of their new cash, police paid off an informer, then arrested a suspected dealer and confiscated $2,500 worth of narcotics. Proving once again, as St. Paul observed, that charity rejoiceth not in iniquity...