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...delivered in 1980. Says the plane's leading congressional critic, Democrat Bruce Vento of Minnesota: "The issue is whether questionable programs with runaway costs should be allowed to waste funds that would otherwise be available for weapons that work." Congress, say many critics of the program, should simply scrap the entire weapon, thereby saving up to $2.9 billion in 1983 and underscoring its determination not to put up with wasteful projects...
Harvard graduate school officials blamed the tuition increases partly on proposed federal cutbacks and said that the Reagan Administration's plan to scrap Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLs) for graduate students would contribute to future tuition increases. Presently, GSLs help support about 650,000 graduate students nationwide and 5400 at Harvard...
DIED. Stringfellow Barr, 85, distinguished author and educator who rocked the academic world in 1937 when, as the new president of St. John's College, he instituted a radical curriculum requiring the study of 100 classics; of pneumonia; in Alexandria, Va. Barr felt that colleges should scrap textbooks and introduce students to such authors as Plato, Darwin, Dante, Shakespeare and Marx...
Some of the jobless who stayed put are struggling to cope. From the Detroit suburb of Hazel Park, Larry Hampton, 26, sets out once or twice a week in his pickup truck to search the streets for scrap. Sheet metal brings a penny a pound; cast iron $45 a ton. On a good day, Hampton earns $15, and it keeps him busy. "I've just got too many bills and not enough money to pay them," says Hampton, who lost his job in a machine shop last November. "It's scary...
...real right of appeal. The regulations can be used to punish anyone the government doesn't like." Added a white government official who is planning to leave the country: "The government keeps accusing whites of being responsible for acts of sabotage, but has so far produced not a scrap of public evidence. They'll probably resort to taking away people's property just to prove they are on top of things...