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...party's platform, formulated over two years ago, includes a call for cutting the military budget by 80 per cent and using the money for housing and education; cutting the work week by law to 30 hours with 40 hours pay; ending cold war policies; giving Puerto Rico its independence; outlawing racism and strengthening civil rights laws; insuring jobs and education for youth; establishing equality for women in every aspect of life--the C.P. opposes the ERA, on the grounds that it could affect affirmative action programs; increasing social security payments to senior citizens; passing a comprehensive National Health...
Ford denies that he has not given sufficient priority to U.S. relations with its allies. He points to the kind of intimate consultation on economic matters that went on at the summit meetings at Rambouillet, France, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, when he met with the leaders of Western Europe and Japan...
...able to do much of their own investigating, which lets "us go looking for trouble," says Skinner. They use such standard devices as offers of immunity or plea bargaining to get their information, and they have found a new tool: the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statutes (RICO). Originally aimed at the Mafia, the laws provide for the seizure of certain of a convicted offender's assets in addition to fines and prison terms. The aim: to put the defrauders out of business as well as punish them...
...Questions. Skinner is currently trying to RICO not only the accused Medicaid-fraud conspirators but a group of five nursing homes and two pharmacies also charged with Medicaid fraud, and Chicago's Tyler Barber College. The barber school scam particularly rouses Skinner. It, involves allegedly false Veterans Administration claims from dozens of otherwise "good citizens": fire men, policemen, Chicago transit workers and Federal Government employees who shared their V A monthly education benefits ($216 to $398) with the school but never went to class or snipped a hair. Worries Skinner: "With the potential for fraud so easy...
...dearth of them. Ramon Jiminez, who successfully led the students and teachers of Hostos Community College in New York to resist the closing of the East's only bilingual college will speak on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Blackstone Community School about the student movement in Puerto Rico; but aside from that--which I have the uneasy feeling may be in Spanish--it just doesn't look as if much is going on this week...