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...achieve full employment and equal access to education, housing and health care will we be able to resolve our severe inequities. These goals are attained by a massive reordering of national priorities, not by reallocating the relatively small amount of money which might be available if we were to pare the wages of draftees...
...middle-income families. But all these proposed $9.7 billion budget reductions are not likely to pass Congress. Says one senior budget maker: "The chances of getting rid of that money for beekeepers are zero, but this is exactly the kind of thing we must get rid of to pare down the budget...
...Mike Coglin (H) 1:43.89, 3. G. Peters (C) 1:44.34; 50-yd. freestyle--1. Geoff Seelen (H) 22.09, 2. Carbone (H) 22.13, 3. P. Scaturro (C) 22.4; 200-yd. individual medley--1. Lundberg (H) 1:56.18, 2. Time Maximoff (H) 1:59.30, 3. M. Pare (C) 2:02.29; One-meter diving-- 1. M. Gurnee (C) 293.20, 2. Steve Schramm (H) 291.70, 3. P. Opperman (C) 268.00; 200-yd. Butterfly--1. E. Wiscavage (C) 1:55.84, 2. Campari Knoepffler (H) 1:57.56, 3. Andy Lockman (H) 1:57.75; 100 freestyle-- 1. P. Scaturro (C) 48.57, 2. Countryman...
Even if you overlook the fact that the proposal is just so much political baggage, however, the content of the legislation is grounds enough for dismissal. It is ironic that the Washington outsider whose 1976 campaign platform promised to pare down the overgrown federal blob has thrown his support behind a proposal that will further crowd the Washington community and further extend a tradition of Washington mismanagement. A separate cabinet-level Department of Education, is the easy way out. For more than 30 years, education has been the orphan child of the Washington bureacracy--drifting from the Interior Department...
...Senate displayed another sign of independence. The White House had called for a 43% reduction in Amtrak routes in order to trim the $600 million annual subsidy. Then came the gas shortage, and Amtrak ridership jumped 24% in June over the year before. So the Senate voted to pare the system by just under 20%. To remain in service, a train must average 150 passengers per mile and lose no more than 7? a mile per passenger. Among the trains that will survive: the New York-New Orleans Southern Crescent, considered the best passenger train in the nation; the Washington...