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Last week, efforts to redress the resulting "imbalance" of world news moved ahead, thanks to an arm of the United Nations. The U. N. body approved a preliminary plan for helping Third World and Soviet bloc countries improve their communications and information flow. But while the problem it is aimed is a real one, the path it prescribes for a "new world information order" is so threatening to the notion of press-freedom that the journey hardly seems worthwhile...
...tight money and taxpayer rebellions, government is not likely to redress the disparity. In fact, the Reagan Administration is urging a one-third cut in the funding for the federal program under which most of the few computers in inner-city schools were purchased. Another much ballyhooed prospect for help is also in trouble. Steven Jobs, the 27-year-old chairman of Apple Computer, had proposed donating a free computer to every school in the country, provided Congress grant manufacturers the same tax break that would be available if they gave the equipment to a university. The companies that took...
...redress the problem, California Democrat Waxman last year proposed legislation that would provide financial incentives to companies undertaking or phan-drug research. Last week such bills were overwhelmingly approved by the House and the Senate. Under the provisions of the House bill, drug companies were to receive a 90% tax credit for expenses incurred in orphan-drug development, but the Senate struck this credit and substituted an appropriation of $9 million. The House measure also called for a seven-year period of exclusive marketing rights for unpatentable orphan products. It provided that in the absence of any alternative treatment, orphan...
...confiscated, their crops burned. A West Banker suspected of engaging in resistance activities, even throwing a stone at an Israeli vehicle, is liable to have his home destroyed; some 1,500 houses have been so razed. In some instances, Palestinians have appealed to the Israeli supreme court for redress, but the court refuses to overturn rulings on issues involving military security...
...only has the current Administration made little effort to redress the wage imbalance, in the eyes of many feminists it has set out to blunt the victories of the past ten years. Around the Women's Legal Defense Fund, President Reagan's popularity rating is about as high as the heels on a California rancher's boots. Among the grievances: Administration suspension of stronger affirmative-action regulations for businesses receiving Government contracts; withdrawal of wage-discrimination and sex-segregation guidelines for federal contractors; elimination of the $500 million set aside for child care in the federal budget...