Word: partially
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...atmosphere"of intrigue and fear in the prison has continued despite the willingness of the New Mexico legislature to spend $90 million on improving the institution's facilities. The operating budget has been boosted by 39%. Overcrowding, considered a partial cause of the riot, has been alleviated: the prison population is down from 1,157 to 675. Still, a third of the convicts remain housed in army-style dormitories, an arrangement that many penologists say breeds conflict and gang rule...
Would the beginning of negotiations with the Pakistanis permit the initial, partial withdrawal of Soviet troops? Said Dost: "Both we and the Soviet Union want this limited contingent of their forces withdrawn. But for that to happen, these interventions from abroad in our affairs should stop, and international guarantees should be given that intervention will not recur. First we must reach that stage: the cessation of all armed intervention and aggression from abroad...
...companies are beginning to design plan options that provide at least partial inflation protection. If a worker chooses to take a lower initial retirement benefit, for instance, his pension checks will be increased each year by a fixed percentage of the rise in the Consumer Price Index. H.J. Heinz Co. has already introduced an indexing option, and several other companies are considering...
...made farmers anxious to sell their surplus abroad. A delegation from the U.S. Agriculture Department travels to Moscov this week with an offer to sell the Soviets 10 million more tons of grain. The U.S has already sold 8.8 million tons of grain since the Carter Administration's partial embargo was lifted in April...
Before the partial retractions were made, a backlash against the minority demands had already begun. Student Assembly officers said a majority of undergraduates might not ratify the council's constitution if it contained a controversial minority representation clause. And in a meeting yesterday with leaders of the constitutional drafting committee, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology, argued that special seats for minorities would "violate the spirit" of the Dowling Report...