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...vote, a "sense of Congress" resolution opposing any "precipitous and unfair" reductions in benefits for early retirees and any package of cuts that is more severe than necessary to keep the system solvent in the short run. Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, told Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker, "You have chosen a solution that violates the sacred word of our President and our Government and our Congress to the people." The White House backtracked quickly, releasing a letter from Reagan assuring congressional leaders that "this Administration is not wedded...
When Mitterrand officially takes over power from Giscard on May 21, his first act as President will be to select a Premier from a number of candidates. The new President and his Premier will then name a Cabinet, which will function as a "transitional" government. Mitterrand has stated that this first Cabinet will consist of "those who have supported" him -which Socialists say excludes the Communists, whose backing did not come until the second round...
...Congress set up the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, a 16-member panel led by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, to review the current laws and to recommend changes. In its report, delivered last March, the commission recommended raising the number of legal immigrants and refugees admitted to the U.S. and granting amnesty to most illegal aliens already here. Yet the panel also advised imposing sanctions against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, and adopting a reliable means of identifying persons eligible to work in the U.S. A Reagan Administration task force...
...acted as though the election were already won and set about choosing who among them would be the winners. That, in Israel's complicated proportional representation, involves elaborate wheeling and dealing to dole out ranks on the party list, the 120-candidate roster from which the voters will select the new Knesset members. Because the percentage of the popular vote determines how many on the list will be elected, places at the top are the prizes. The jockeying for position can be fierce. One party heavyweight, Abba Eban, a former Foreign Minister, was previously No. 2 after Peres...
Instead of immediately renovating Mather, Crooks told Mattlin, the College would begin to survey all the River Houses to determine where the most feasible accomodations could be made and would begin work on proposed changes. Crooks asked Mattlin to select Currier or Quincy in the meantime and to live alone with his attendant again. And Mattlin--although he believes he legally does not have to accept what's available--recently consented to live in Quincy...