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Last year, almost a dozen cities and states divested from their holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. This year, more than 20 state legislatures will consider divestiture of funds held by state pension plans and similar programs In a series of interviews last week, leading officials at nearly a dozen organizations working for divestiture expressed a common anticipation that, with pressure from the Coalition, next year will be even better than the previous...
...appears that local organizations did much of the work and were helped by national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts a group called MassDIVISI, a coalition of local groups, spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa. Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, saying it was primarily a local effort...
...billion. That proposal would still mean that 1986 defense outlays would be 72% above the 1982 level. Big cuts in nondefense spending, Greenspan suggested, might come from curbing Medicare benefits to people Other high incomes. Medicare is expected to cost $79 billion in 1986. Other prime employees include pension and disability payments for federal employees ($27 billion in 1986), income support for farmers ($13.4 billion) and loans from the Export-Import Bank to foreign customers of U.S. businesses ($3.8 billion...
...Former Presidents Act of 1958, seeking to rectify such instances of national neglect, provided a $25,000 annual pension and $50,000 a year for office and taff, sums that have steadily escalated. Now each ex-President is entitled to a lifetime annual salary equal to that of a Cabinet Secretary (currently $80,100). Widows get $20,000 a year. The retiree also gets $150,000 for a staff during the first 30 months and $96,000 a year thereafter, unlimited nonpolitical postage and a furnished office. The expenses are flexible. "The law says the office must be 'suitably...
...That same week, we held a national conference on apartheid in our Massachusetts State House with representatives of over 35 states resolved to end investment in companies who do business with South Africa. Here in Massachusetts, our legislature enacted landmark legislation which requires the states to tell all its pension fund investments in firms doing business in or with South Africa...