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Under all the rhetorical window dressing, however, there is a simple though painful message which says the cure for our sick public broadcasting system is more money--lots of money. In fact, the commission recommends an annual budget (by 1985) of $1.2 billion. Of this total pool, the federal government would provide $590 million, a recommended increase of over 300 per cent from 1978 funding levels. To supplement this, the commission proposes a system in which Congress would provide two dollars for every three dollars a local station gathered...
Aside from its low credibility, the major obstacle remaining in the commission's path is the total absence of an investigative division to check the accuracy of disclosure information. As a Catch-22-style maneuver, the legislature authorized all but $35,000 of the commission's fiscal 1979 budget request, yet declined to create the investigative positions themselves. Gov. Edward J. King added to the commission's woes last Thursday when he proposed a $228,200 cut in its $631,350 budget request for the upcoming fiscal year...
...Longwood area hospitals have an annual payroll of $250 million, which is almost half the city's total payroll for health and medical services. Hospital employees produce a revenue of $450 million in the city through the creation of other jobs, and also spend or bank half their pay in the city...
...reputation of Harvard University as a bastion of Western cultural and intellectual tradition is especially strong in the emerging African elites. But many in that group mistrust the West because of the years of European colonialism, the long period of total support by the West of white supremacy in South Africa, and the continuing refusal to back U.N. sanctions against South Africa. Seen in this context, Harvard is faced with the choice of a policy of ambivalence on apartheid (opposing it in words while at the same time profiting from it)--which can only cause cynicism among Africans...
...computer industries, providing a substantial share of the military and police vehicles, refined petroleum, and data processing equipment essential to the efficient administration of apartheid. Furthermore, it has been estimated that American companies pay three times as much in taxes to the South African government as they do total wages to their African employees...