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...regents meeting, where his conservative appointees have routinely attacked campus activists and university spending. Yet last week, pleading flu, Reagan missed his second monthly meeting in a row-perhaps, insiders suggested, because he has lately shifted his fire to a new target of opportunity, the welfare mess. The upshot was startling and wholly unexpected: by a comfortable margin, the regents chose a decided liberal to succeed retiring Roger W. Heyns as the new chancellor of California's most controversial campus, Berkeley...
...tape swaddling those programs has slowed down local school administrators, who must draw up detailed spending proposals to get their funds. The proposals must then be shuffled in Washington by as many as 24 different officials. In some programs, administrative costs eat up 500 of every dollar spent. The upshot is that comprehensive planning vanishes as states get mired in the federal maze...
...process, many builders pocketed millions of dollars of unearned profit from mortgage loans that exceeded the cost of construction. The loans were based on FHA cost estimates, and nobody had told the agency to check on whether its estimates exceeded costs actually incurred. They often did. The upshot was the notorious "windfall scandals...
Another day was lost when Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, aware that his enemy was moving missiles toward the canal, unexpectedly called for the truce to start 24 hours earlier than scheduled, hoping to stop the missiles in their tracks. The upshot was that at the crucial moment when the truce began, the U.S. had no immediate "before and after" shots to test the veracity of the Israeli claims that the Egyptians had deployed SAMs at six to 15 sites in the cease-fire zone after the truce went into effect...
...Common Market's Executive Commission announced that it would reconsider Greece's treaty of association because of "reported infringements of human rights." Since the coup, the European Economic Community has suspended aid and blocked progress in economic cooperation until democracy and civil liberties are restored in Greece. The upshot of this state's increasing isolation from Europe is her increasing dependence on the U. S. The current U. S. policy towards Greece-full military, political, and economic support-clearly proves the worthlessness and horrible irony of the preamble to NATO. "The parties are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage...