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...effort to spur protective legislation for time-share consumers, the National TimeSharing Council Board of Governors will meet this week in Orlando, Fla., to adopt a tougher "model act" for state governments without such laws. Though time sharing can be an inexpensive vacation alternative, it also quite plainly remains for now an investment that requires careful planning and close investigation...
...manufacturing and distributing companies that rushed to get in on the bean bonanza have sued to get the FDA ban overturned. One of the first questions the courts will have to answer is whether the pills are in fact a drug or merely a food not subject to the tougher drug restrictions. Meanwhile, "if any of the plaintiffs continue to market," said an FDA spokesman, "they will be subject to regulatory action." Possible penalties include seizure of inventories, fines and imprisonment...
...bulk of the extra funds could go towards salary increases for the city's union workers. Healy, who will be negotiating with most of the municipal employee unions during the summer, said the additional aid could make bargaining tougher. "They [the unions] read the papers too, and they'll figure with all this extra money, I should give them a new pay raise," he added...
...Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin, and a working relationship with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Haig had established himself as the Kremlin's principal point of contact on START. Now the Soviets are worried not only about Haig's departure, but about the possibility that Weinberger, who favored an even tougher stance on negotiations, will reassert himself...
Down in California, the case involved a Los Angeles busing plan ordered by a state court, not one adopted voluntarily as in Seattle. A 1979 antibusing referendum amended the state constitution to make it tougher for plaintiffs to win mandatory busing orders. California's constitution had required state judges to impose busing when necessary to cure school segregation even if it resulted from housing patterns that developed without any official intent to segregate. Federal law requires proof of official intent. When they approved Proposition 1, Californians essentially embraced the looser federal standard. By an 8-to-l vote...