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That welcome announcement, we trust, is tantamount to final approval for the museum. With about two weeks of fundraising still ahead, the museum's visiting committee has come up with more than half its goal, and it looks likely that it will raise the other half in time...
...said that Haig "has one foot on a banana peel" and might fall soon. Gergen called Haig, who called Anderson. The rumors, the Secretary of State told the columnist, were the work of a top White House aide who has been running a "guerrilla campaign" against him that was tantamount to a "sabotage of the President...
...current efforts to hold back the organization he helped to found: "The time has come to think about a personnel change in the union, even though Walesa is still a symbol of unity." Jozef Dudek, another radical from southern Poland, declared that sending Walesa to the summit talk was tantamount to "letting a single individual represent 10 million people." At that remark, Walesa snapped back. Said he: "I will represent 10 million members, Jaruzelski will represent the government, and Primate Glemp will represent the church...
...proposals have already come under harsh attack. Tony Bonilla, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, has denounced the amnesty plan as "tantamount to establishing serfdom." Some conservative Republicans oppose employer sanctions as yet another form of Government regulation. The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund says the sanctions will lead to job discrimination against Hispanics. Other critics argue that without a certain method of identifying illegal aliens, sanctions will be impossible to enforce. Nonetheless, there is little support for a national I.D. card. Acknowledges Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who supports some kind...
...friends and almost no influence within the Administration. The consumer groups have, so far, been concentrating their criticism on the cozy relations between the new administrators and the industries they now watch over. Says David Cohen, who recently resigned as president of Common Cause: "This is tantamount to turning the keys over to industry." Reagan's deregulation challenge will now be to cut back on inefficient Government rules without at the same time making federal agencies mere pawns of American corporations...