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...gentle tone that graced the day. Even the high hard pitches drew nothing from the President but the desire to inform. Why are Son Chip and his family living on the taxpayers' money in the White House? "All personal expenses are paid for out of my own pocket," said the President, disclaiming any "mooching off the American taxpayers." How come married couples pay higher tax rates than singles? What about the Ottawa Indians' land-claim payments, a Kentuckian asked...
...declined to comment on where the school expected to find extra funds, adding, "I wish that the money could come out of my own pocket...
...ascertain the astrological machinations governing such things, precisely 24 hours after the Winthrop concert begins, the Kuumba Singers of the Afro-American Cultural Center will perform in the Lowell House dining hall. (That's Saturday, March 12 at 8:30 pm for those of you without slide rules or pocket calculators.) Count on richly-textured choral and African folk music; $1 donation requested...
...impossible, Amin continued, because "the Americans in Uganda are happy and are scattered all over the country," and, in any case, "Uganda has the strength to crush any invaders." Amin, who thinks that all his difficulties are inflicted upon him by Jews, accused Carter of being "in the pocket of Zionist Israel" and then suggested angrily that instead of asking the U.N. to investigate the violation of human rights in Uganda, the U.S. should ask the U.N. to look into "the crimes which the U.S. has committed in various parts of the world." But he closed by asking Carter...
Cambridge's Third District Court has a fairly good reputation for being just and humane--even from the days of the old training schools. Cambridge judges have used restitution liberally--the idea of employing a youthful offender to pay back the out-of-pocket costs to the victim--in recent years...