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tightening eligibility requirements for disability payments and for some beneficiaries-federal employees for example -who have other pension plans; reducing the benefits for early retirement (prior to age 65) from 80% to 55% of the total benefit; and delaying, during one year, the annual cost of living adjustment from July 1 to Oct. 1, which would save an estimated $3 billion. When the plan was first announced last spring, it immediately set off furious outcries that Reagan intended, as Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill acidly and inaccurately put it, "to balance the budget on the backs of Social...
...confessed Budget Director David Stockman, the worst week of toil he had ever experienced. An admitted workaholic, Stockman had averaged about five hours of sleep a night during the five days prior to the President's speech-a time, he said, "when things began to get interesting." Among other things, he had chaired a meeting of the Cabinet in Reagan's absence, a symbol of the President's intense trust in his judgment on economic matters. One congressional Democrat describes him as being "like Svengali, like Rasputin to the Tsar." But others are awed by his incisive...
...public disclosure that three Harvard-affiliated doctors had written letters of recommendation for a colleague without mentioning his prior rape conviction prompted outcries from physicians and scholars, an investigation by the Massachusetts Medical Society, and a flurry of letters and editorials in papers across the nation...
Last Saturday President Bok broke that silence. In a statement that followed growing criticism within and outside of the Medical School faculty, Bok said he "deeply regretted" that representatives of Buffalo Children's Hospital were not informed of Dr. Arif Hussain's crimnal conviction prior to offering him employment...
Others talk of a qualified franchise, based on property and prior education. Since many Blacks receive no schooling and few own property, this arrangement would deny most Blacks access to the ballot box. Even the liberal opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP) does not advocate one man, one vote, although it would give Blacks some kind of representation. A staffer at a Johannesburg PFP office explains that while she favors one man, one vote, the party would lose support if it came out for equal representation...