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...good films signal Japan's return to world class...
Both were evident last week. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler testified on Capitol Hill for a bill providing for enforcement of child-support payments. A group of Republican Congresswomen met with White House staffers to discuss child-support and pension reform. Schneider called the meeting "a significant signal that the White House is serious" about portions, at least, of the Economic Equity Act. This is a complex package of legislation on pension reform, tax relief, insurance discrimination and child-care issues developed by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
...shift from Baker to Casey. TIME has learned that, as rumored, Casey did indeed set up a political intelligence-gathering apparatus for the Reagan campaign. But it was not simply a casual use of retired military officers asked to stay alert for any U.S. aircraft moves that might signal the Reagan camp that Carter was about to gain the freedom of the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran-the "October surprise" that Reagan's political aides feared. Instead, cooperative former agents of both the FBI and the CIA were used to gather political information from their colleagues then still active...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher indicated as much in a letter last February to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter did not explicitly concede sovereignty, which London wants to hold as a bargaining chip, but it did, in the words of a Western diplomat, send the Chinese "a very broad signal." As the diplomat loosely paraphrased it, the letter said: "We know you will gain sovereignty, but before we put things down in black and white let's see what you have in mind for administering Hong Kong...
...discount rate, which is the interest the Fed charges on loans to its member banks. A boost in the rate, which has been at 8½% since January, is unlikely, however, because it would indicate a strong shift in policy. Concedes a Fed official: "Nobody wants to send a signal of a tough new policy. At least not at this time...