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...require. In real terms, his proposed budget would reduce the appropriations for social services by about 15 billion dollars while allowing the nation's arms arsenal to continue growing. Though some cuts of redundant or unnecessary programs may be justified, the proposed slashing of federal jobs programs, which would wipe out over 150,000 jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and practically eradicate the Youth Conservation Corps., does much more than eliminate wasteful government spending--it exposes the President as a man with little commitment to millions of jobless Americans. Today's unemployment rate...
...Soviet T-54 and PT-76 Soviet tanks and ar mored personnel carriers, maintaining air control by means of captured U.S. F-5Es and A-37s, along with Soviet MiGs, the Vietnamese started a second-phase maneuver. They moved along rural routes into isolated areas seeking to surround and wipe out the pockets they had bypassed in the initial rush. Unable to bring ar tillery to bear on such swiftly moving foes, the Khmer offered only brief opposition and then faded back to secondary defenses...
Seductive beauty and ageless craftsmanship account largely for the drawing power of Tut's treasures. "They are so fresh they kind of wipe out time," says Thomas Moving, who as former head of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum organized the show and has written the best-selling Tutankhamun: The Untold Story (Simon and Schuster; $12.95). Although many of the exhibit's 55 pieces are gold, Hoving maintains that the value of the collection is "not a critical part of its popularity." (Asked how much it is worth, he replies airily: "$416,872,417.68, plus green stamps...
...interest in heading. He wants to reduce Western influence in Iran. The appointment of the new military government, he told TIME Paris Correspondent Sandy Burton last week, "will not change anything. Rather, it will intensify the unrest and strikes ... The goal of our people's struggle is to wipe out the root and the fundamental cause of all the corruption and crimes, which is the Shah and the monarchy...
...Middelburg, a small town outside Pretoria, two small boys run up to wash the windows of the car, hoping to get a few cents for their efforts. They wipe the window furiously with a cloth only slightly more ragged than their clothes; this five cents means a lot to them. Times are bad now for black South Africans. Unemployment has reached an all-time high, though no one has exact figures; and there is no minimum wage for most of the jobs blacks can do. 80 per cent of black South Africans fall below the poverty datum line, the absolute...