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Last year, the society and other groups hoping to eliminate animals experimentation successfully backed the repeal of Massachusett's pound and seizure laws--making it illegal after October for pound animals to be used in experiments...
Under the old law, experimenters were able to obtain stray dogs and ones slated to be destroyed by the government. Groups like the anti-vivisectionist society which helped repeal the pound law introduced the greyhound bill because they felt scientists might start using racing dogs to replace the pound animals...
Mondale's rhetoric sometimes borders on demagoguery when he addresses the elderly. "Reagan is trying to repeal Medicare by stealth," he tells residents of old-age homes, noting that the President has proposed a hike in some Medicare premiums from $14 to $40 a month. He accuses Reagan of slicing $80 billion out of future Social Security benefits without conceding that this was part of a bipartisan package to save the program from bankruptcy...
Raising the phone bills for millions of Americans during an election year is abhorrent to politicians. That is why Congress has been moving inexorably toward repeal of controversial access charges on long-distance telephone service that were due to go into effect on April 3. Last week, bowing to the inevitable, the Federal Communications Commission decided to delay the charges until next year for individuals and many small businesses...
...Guatemala, where the government is currently keeping a much smaller leftist insurrection in check; increased military aid of an unspecified amount to Honduras, Nicaragua's northern neighbor, where U.S. troops will soon be winding up joint exercises that are scheduled to be renewed in July; and a repeal of the existing ban on U.S. aid to foreign police forces. The ban was enacted to prevent the U.S. from underwriting human rights abuses by authoritarian regimes, but it has had the perverse effect of denying security assistance to democratic Costa Rica, which has no army and relies entirely...