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...York City: "The U.S. should support liberation movements everywhere. The case in point is now Namibia. We pressed our friends in Washington to put more pressure on South Africa to comply with the United Nations resolution [calling for South Africa to grant independence to Namibia], and we expect a prompt response...
...Casey first and give him a hearing later. While publicly supporting Goldwater, Baker urged him to appoint Fred D. Thompson, a longtime friend from Tennessee who was Republican counsel in the Senate's Watergate investigation, as chief counsel in the Casey probe. Thompson accepted the post, promising a prompt but careful study. Casey supplied the committee with volumes of documents and demanded a quick hearing...
...officials added, however, that proposed revisions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 could prompt Harvard to change procedures used to assess and report programs designed to prevent discrimination...
...pregnant women are not firmly established, but research suggests there is some risk. For example, reports have linked drinking 1 oz. of alcohol a day to low birth weights and 2 oz. a week with an increased risk of spontaneous abortions. Findings such as these were enough to prompt the Surgeon General's warning. Says John DeLuca, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism...
Thurow's worries are challenged by Herbert Stein, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon. Defense expenditures, Stein argues, will be partly offset by Reagan's deep cuts in social spending. Income tax reductions will prompt enough saving and investment to spur productivity growth. In any case, Stein and like-minded economists point out, even in fiscal 1986, at the end of Reagan's planned military buildup, defense outlays will consume only about 7% of the gross national product?no more than in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the U.S. enjoyed noninflationary prosperity...