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...committee finally tied together a package of first-year emergency aid that will considerably soften the impact of Proposition 13. The solution was swiftly approved by the full legislature and signed into law by a pleased Brown, whose own relief plan had been only slightly modified. In a televised address to Californians, he declared: "Proposition 13 creates challenges, it creates problems, but it creates an opportunity to make government in California a model for people all over the country...
Many critics of the proposals, such as Pamela Lippe, legislative assistant for the environmentalist lobby, Friends of the Earth, say the NIH move is purely political, an attempt to soften the standards before any legislation goes into effect. Dr. Bernard Talbot, a spokesman for NIH, denies this charge, saysing the proposals originated a year ago, before the present legislation was drafted...
...effective as the Communist way in supporting countries abroad. I have an uneasy feeling that this may be the case. We give them the most modern arms, we emphasize the material to the exclusion of the spiritual and the Spartan life, and it may be that we soften them up rather than harden them up for the battle. On the other hand, the enemy emphasizes the Spartan life, not the material, emphasizes sacrifice and, of course, with the enormous Soviet technical help on missiles, guns, etc., they have a pretty good advantage...
...business, labor and California's 1.5 million-member state and local bureaucracy, contend that it would lead to mass layoffs of teachers, police and firemen. Backers of Jarvis-Gann say that the warnings are preposterous and that the state is already running a $3.5 billion surplus that would soften the actual cutbacks to little more than moderate retrenchments...
...advice to the Spanish Communists to stay with Leninism, the congress voted with Carrillo on Thesis XV, 968 to 248 to set a Communist precedent by dropping the party's Leninist label. With old Moscow friend La Pasionaria unaccountably absent and Carrillo grinning broadly, the delegates attempted to soften the blow by chanting "Lenin, Lenin, Lenin." The municipal elections anticipated later this year will be the first test of Carrillo's triumph-and new strategy...