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...says George Mye, chairman of the islanders' 19-member Coordinating Council. After initially dismissing the fuss, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke last week dispatched a Cabinet minister to Thursday, the capital, for discussions. The government then promised to set up a commission to safeguard the islanders' interests every day of the week...
Washington waged war on poverty among the elderly through two programs that helped rich and poor alike. Congress created Medicare insurance in 1965. In 1972 it voted a 20% increase in Social Security benefits and linked them to the Consumer Price Index in an attempt to safeguard retirees from the double- digit inflation that was devastating young families. In 1980 alone, payments increased a record 14.3%. Now each month 91% of those 65 and over receive benefits totaling $13.6 billion. The percentage of elderly people living below the poverty line has been cut from...
...Boston Church of Christ takes advantage of the insecurity some people feel here, then the church should be controlled on campus. Harvard, however, should be sure it is acting to safeguard students' rights to make their own choices. Otherwise, efforts against the church might have more to do with Harvard's arrogance, and with its unfortunate feeling that those who talk about religion are just a bit too impolite to be endured...
...Charles Curran, who is fighting his ouster from the Catholic University of America. Theologians, the - Pontiff said, must be subject to church authority, and bishops should make clear that "dissent and confrontation" are not acceptable from church scholars. John Paul also urged the prelates to step up efforts to "safeguard and promote" doctrinal orthodoxy at church-affiliated colleges...
Overall, women constitute roughly 10% of the 2.1 million active-duty members of the armed forces. Women serve on about 50 Navy ships and at most U.S. bases abroad. The captain accused in the report of offering to sell women crew members commanded the noncombat vessel Safeguard, which had 18 women among its six officers and 84 enlisted men. A Navy spokesman claimed that the captain's "distasteful" offer was meant as a joke, but his superiors did not consider it funny. They relieved him of his command and filed other sexual- harassment charges against...