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None of that good news, however, came free. The cost, in part, was sharply increased postal rates for both businesses and individuals. The price of a first-class stamp, a mere 4? a generation ago, has risen since 1971 from 8? to the current 20?. The Postal Service has applied to the Postal Rate Commission, which reviews requests for rate increases, for a raise to 23? for first-class stamps. It could come as early as October, but probably will not take effect until a few months after the November elections...
...their political allies? F.D.R. President Guillermo Ungo, whom I encountered on a flight from Amsterdam to Central America, told me the elections will be meaningless even in the event of a massive turnout. "Voting is obligatory, and the people know that if they don't have a stamp on their identification papers showing they voted, they will be considered subversive and therefore a target for repression. We don't say don't vote. We are limiting ourselves to explaining to the people that the elections are of no importance whatsoever...
...this level. He suggests possible ways to strengthen youth advocacy groups to provide a voice for children, such as reforming IRS Tax Exemption laws to enable groups to spend more time and funds on legislative activities. He lobbies for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54's proposed 2.5 billion food stamp and child nutrition program; and he urges the United States to stay in UNESCO, an international organization which provides massive food, educational, and development aid to underdeveloped countries to "assist the world's children...
Ranging from Elbridge Gerry's call for a Stamp Tax prior to the American Revolution to Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 address denouncing western societal values, Harvard commencement speeches have continually had a national--and occasionally an international--impact...
...registration groups--especially on the Left--are beginning to come up with some innovative ways of adding names to the voter rolls. Project VOTE, for instance, is an organization that tries to enlist low-income voters by setting up registration tables in food stamp and unemployment lines and housing projects. "We tell them that the social programs--for which they are in line--being cut affect poor people and minorities, and that their failure to register and vote has elected those responsible," says Alan Raby, an official with the program. Efforts like these, moreover, are being helped...