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...house them temporarily in existing Minuteman silos. Critics charged that this ad hoc system would make them vulnerable to a Soviet strike. The committee made $1.1 billion more in cuts before sending the fiscal 1983 weapons budget of $180.2 billion to the Senate floor. There it may face even rougher treatment as critics attempt to cut $11.3 billion in funds slated for the B-l strategic bomber and two nuclear aircraft carriers. The budget trimmers got some moral support from Gerald Ford, who said last week that it was "hogwash" to think that U.S. security would be endangered...
Questions of property are hard fought, but quarrels over who keeps the children can be even rougher. A solution that has been gaining acceptance is joint custody, now available in some 20 states. Perhaps the ultimate in sharing was put together last month by Circuit Judge Charles Forster in Traverse City, Mich. Cheryl and Allan Church may go their separate ways, he said, but their three teen-age boys in a sense will get custody of the house. Under the plan, the ex-mates will move in and out each month. For the Churches, at least, the arrangement is perfect...
...they could, and the game was rougher than many varsity games. The j.v. skaters, though not abandoning their game plan, refused to be intimidated, matching every check with a solid hit of their own. At times the Hawks displayed some of the best checking Bright Rink has seen in a long while...
...this Johnny Carson guy?" wrote a London Standard reader. "I find it very difficult to laugh when the chat-show king is earning a multimillion-dollar salary reading cue boards." The pros were even rougher. Announced TV Critic Margaret Forwood in the Sun: "To be frank, Carson got right up my nose." Said Joe Steeples of the Daily Mail: "His monologue could be in Swahili for all we get from...
Coatesworth added, "I don't think that they [the Eliot defensive line] will be any rougher than they normally would be. But, I'm not sure that they'll be any easier, either...