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...Hair's was the third such protest within a week. Birth control and abortion advocate William Baird filed suit in the U.S. District Court to prevent the use of public funds and land for the religious ceremonies. Also, two protestant ministers joined representatives from the Civil Liberties Union at a City Council hearing to protest the use of public funds for the papal mass on the Boston Common October...
...conference committee will discuss differences between the two before binding spending limits...
Over the next year or two, the recession will shift attention back on demand. When will real disposable income turn up to reverse the shrinkage in the circular flow of production, income and spending? When will spending attitudes improve to give a little extra boost to retail sales? But this period of demand dominance will be short-lived. If growth were to return to the normal 3 to 4 per cent range, the economy would be running out of energy supplies and industrial capacity as early as 1982 and the stage would be set for another supply-induced recession...
...ambitious, When she left the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka last month, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took home plans for a comprehensive military and political settlement of the conflict in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, with the approval of her 38 Commonwealth partners. Last week, her plans seemed to become reality as two delegations arrived for talks in Lancaster House, near Saint James Palace in the heart of London. One group spoke for the Patriotic Front, won alliance of insurgent forces headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; the other represented the current government, led by Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa and including Minister...
...conference got underway, there was some progress. A team of skillful mediators from the British Foreign Office, directed by Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, prodded the two sides to agree on an agenda for discussion. The British hope for settlement along the lines suggested in Lusaka: a cease-fire between the 15,000 troops of the front and Salisbury's 20,000 soldiers and hired mercenaries, constitutional changes to reduce special privileges for Zimbabwe's 230,000 whites and bring black majority rule, and free elections to install a new government under a more democratic constitution. They would retain some safeguards...