Mayors push urban aid to match defense spending wastefully
The U S Conference of Mayors backed a 70 to 41 resolution urging Congress and the Reagan administration to give urban aid the same budget priority as national defense. With the 1982 defense budget at 222 billion dollars, about 184 billion will be spent in the year starting October, and urban aid is projected near 60 billion. The editorial questions this bold claim and argues cities should reduce dependence on federal handouts and rely on themselves rather than expect others to solve urban problems.
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U.S. Conference of Mayors
Congress
Reagan Administration
Europe
Persian Gulf
United States
Don’t Bring It Back dinosaur expedition in Africa
A University of Chicago biologist and a Los Angeles engineer plan an Africa expedition after a Congo tribesman tale of a 35 foot brontosaurus. Skeptics doubt survival for 60 million years, and the note cautions against crowds or展示 of any creature.
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University of Chicago
Los Angeles
Africa
Congo
New York City
World Trade Center
Reagan Nominee Traits For A Long Politic Jurist
The piece argues President Reagan should nominate a young yet accomplished judge with a strong record in public service and jurisprudence, who understands economics, possesses a restraint theory, and can counter three decades of judicial excess. It praises an intellectual capable of shaping constitutional thought and aligning with conservative limits on federal power.
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Washington
Reagan
Supreme Court
Hidden Taxes On Bread And Daily Life In Chicago
Paul Harvey traces hidden taxes across a single loaf’s journey from seed to store. He cites Chicago figures showing federal and local levies push a family’s tax load to over 30 percent, with utilities, gas, insurance, and taxes on goods stacking high. The piece also notes Reagan’s tax relief as a start while introducing Robert Bork and his Yale position in a broader legal-political context.
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Sam Smith
Chicago
Tribune
Illinois
New York
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
Los Angeles
Ball Park
Reagan Tax Cuts Tilt To Wealth, Not Middle Class
The piece argues President Reagan exaggerates benefits for the middle class while the Kemp Roth tax plan largely favors the wealthy. Treasury data show $60,000 or less pays about 73.8 percent of income taxes, but $50,000 to $60,000 incomes sit among the top five percent, undermining claims of broad middle-class relief.
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Washington
NEA
Reagan
Treasury Department
Kremlin Forgery Campaign Aims to Undermine NATO Unity
CIA reports KGB experts produced counterfeit Pentagon documents to sow fear among NATO allies over U.S. nuclear upgrades in Europe. The hoax, printed as a public service booklet titled Top Secret Documents on U.S. Forces Head quarters in Europe, circulated in Oslo Copenhagen The Hague and Brussels with a mix of genuine and altered papers.
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Washington
KGB
Pentagon
CIA
Kremlin
NATO
U.S
Europe
England
Dale van Atta
Oslo
Copenhagen
The
Hague
Brussels
United Kingdom
Britain
United States
Army
Robert Lee Johnson
Orly
Paris
Johnson
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