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...rights and voter registration. But the gathering turned into a pep rally for a black presidential candidate, with Jackson, 41, at the top of the ticket. His speeches were interrupted by chants of "Run, Jesse, run." Delegates sported buttons with Jackson's face and the I AM SOMEBODY tag line he coined and made famous. "If not now, when?" demanded Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., in a luncheon address. "If not Jesse Jackson...
...Station Task Force has said, however, that NASA is contemplating a "modest but useful" station with room for six-to-eight crew members. Such a station, which would probably consist of several modules for manufacturing, conducting scientific experiments and other uses, could be in operation by 1991. Possible price tag: $8 billion to $9 billion...
Mini indeed. The original Marshall Plan for Western Europe after World War II was fueled by a U.S. contribution of $13.6 billion; that would amount to $50.9 billion today. Yet the initial U.S. price tag for the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) was $350 million, less than seven-tenths of 1% of the Marshall Plan adjusted to 1983 dollars. Only last week did Congress pass a scaled-down portion of the CBI, 17 months after Reagan originally proposed...
...BEFORE this story fades into the history books, a couple of morals--or at least questions need to be raised One, of course, regards costs. All officials concede that the price tag is inordinately high for the relatively small amount of square footage involved Some have tried to put the onus on the Historical Commission for imposing by Byzantine regulations. "They certainly call the shots Harvard really had little flexibility." George Oomen, project manager, says. And perhaps some of the blame does he there...
Novels with cute titles should come with a tag marked caveat emptor. The purchases, when opened, are likely to be as interesting and substantial as unfolded cocktail napkins. This year's notable exception is My Search for Warren Harding; the title represents truth in advertising. Elliot Weiner, an ambitious academic historian from New York City, thinks he has located a former mistress of President Harding, who died in office in 1923. The suspect lives in Los Angeles, happily undetected by the handful of Harding specialists who are Weiner's competitors. If the old lady has kept letters...