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...last weekend in Louisville, complain that states have historically been insensitive to the needs of urban areas and the disadvantaged. Says Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier: "Our city has only 16% of the state's population, but we have 30% of the poverty. The state will not reckon with this when it distributes the funds." Civil rights, education and social service leaders are also wary of entrusting the purse strings to statehouses, and more than 60 citizens and religious groups have formed a coalition to oppose the President's plan. Says Marian Wright Edelman of the Children...
...committee rejects Lefever, the nomination could still be brought before the full Senate for a vote. But the Administration may well reckon the political costs of such an unorthodox move-and the inevitable, even more acrimonious public battle that would ensue-as not worth the effort. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington
...call him a "Janus, who has two faces: one the anti-Giscard candidate, the other turned against François Mitterrand." Pundits insist that Marchais actually has a carefully masked preference for the re-election of the conservative Giscard over the leftist Mitterrand. His main reason, they reckon: the fear that a Socialist victory would severely undercut the influence of the smaller Communist Party and relegate it to a helpless neither-government-nor-opposition ambiguity...
...their surrogates, there is no reason why the U.S. should be hindered in helping to supply the guerrilla groups in Afghanistan and the non-Communist resistance to the Vietnamese-backed regime in Cambodia. Soviet planners, poring over their maps in search of targets of opportunity, should have to reckon with the likelihood that the MiGs they have supplied to some would-be invader will encounter U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles. Moscow's cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes...
...just over 1% of those who fled Cuba last year for the land of "open hearts and open arms" that was promised by President Carter. Of the 800 crammed into a penitentiary in Atlanta, six are awaiting judicial action on petitions similar to Rodriguez's. Most reportedly reckon that if they must be locked up somewhere, they would prefer to be back in Cuba, where at least the food is better...