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...services to the aged. Correcting for inflation, economist Lester Thurow calculated that this planned increase in military spending is roughly equal to three times the inflation-fuelling amount added to the military budget during the Vietnam-years of 1965 to 1970. And Reagan's planned tax cuts also threaten to aid inflation. Unless Americans somehow start saving at vastly higher rates, the income-tax cuts will not, incidently, offer much to the elderly. A study done in the 1970s concluded that 60 per cent of those over sixty-five received an annual income of less than five thousand dollars...
...free access to information is the foundation of our educational system, and was the impetus for the American Free Library Movement. Enlightenment for all, in free and ready access to and service at your public library is the birthright of every citizen. The advocates of a user-fee threaten this philosophy. I see our tradition and heritage in grave danger...
Kennedy warned that Reagan's policies threaten the future of the LDF, adding that, "all Americans who believe in human dignity face a dual challenge--we must press on with our unfinished agenda, through litigation and legislation, to achieve the goals we have...
Reagan's aides say that their man has a resounding mandate from the American electorate to threaten and punish the U.S.S.R., and if the Soviets make one false move in Poland or anywhere else, to foreclose indefinitely any improvement in East-West relations. Some of the more hawkish members of the Administration, particularly at the Pentagon and National Security Council, want to keep arms control on the back burner with the heat turned low, while they concentrate on a unilateral arms buildup and other measures to combat Soviet power. Whether there is strong domestic political support for such...
...Sound and the Führer are overfamiliar: an old Nazi project threatens to shake the contemporary world to its foundations. But Spy Master Len Deighton enlivens the pseudo history with some new turns, among them a face-to-face meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Time: 1940. Place: a Belgian bunker. Topic: the surrender of Britain. The Prime Minister, of course, refuses in the end. But so sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise...