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Long Struggle. To replace everything that was swept away, the HEW plan would provide a sort of guaranteed income at a minimal level-somewhat like former President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, which would have given cash grants to the unemployed and working poor. An urban family of four would have a basic cash benefit of $4,400 a figure 25% below the current poverty level as determined by the Federal Government. A single adult would get $2,250; a widow living with two children would receive $3,600. But there would be a catch: to receive aid, every...
Kaplan has shown outsiders only tantalizing bits of his collection, and his claims about its contents are so far unconfirmed by independent experts. But Western intelligence officers who have interviewed him confirm that he once had access to the sort of sensitive Communist Party and secret-police archives he says are now in his possession...
...democratic government. Although he served as an agitprop official throughout the Stalinist terror, he later became an active supporter within the party of its leading liberal, Alexander Dubček. It was during Dubček's brief tenure as party chief that Kaplan began his career as sort of closet archivist of the previous regimes...
...Pythons' work, gibbering on about "textures" and "details," calling Bruegel and Bosch to his side as witnesses to the truth of his vision. But Jabberwocky is not a grand enough failure to sustain such comparisons. It really is marked-down Pythonism, which proves that in enterprises of this sort, several heads are better than one. Richard Schickel
...forum will be sort of an am- pitheatre, similar to the Boston City Hall," Johnathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics, said yesterday, and "we'll use it for lectures, speeches, films and television...