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Right-wing tyrants have a history of playing us for suckers: South Viet Nam's Diem, the Shah of Iran and Chile's Augusto Pinochet. Now add Ferdinand Marcos. The repressive rule of these leaders, with their human-rights violations, economic inequality and police-state justice, invariably creates armed internal opposition. We should drop President Marcos like a hot potato. Gary Fox Oxford, Ohio...
...ruckus not only from homeowners but from the building industry and mortgage lenders. Another break that Ways and Means restored is the deductibility of state and local taxes, which was stoutly defended by legislators from high-levy states. One congressional study estimated that the loss of deductibility would add some $1,600 to the average 1987 bill for about half of New York's taxpayers. The state's Governor, Mario Cuomo, hailed the new plan. Said he: "I am delighted. I will fight for the bill...
...recent California State University graduate, won the first Burroughs design competition with an approach of a deeper sort. His MUSE prototype, a small computer grafted onto a versatile high-tech music stand, is the equivalent of a word processor for composers, performers, students and teachers. It enables them to add, change or erase notes and chords at will, add rhythm accompaniment, and play back part or all of a composition...
...held that rating before the strike. One possible result: the number of near misses between aircraft reached a record 592 in 1984, and grew at an even faster pace during the first five months of last year. Reacting to pressure from Congress, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole has agreed to add nearly 1,000 new controllers during the next two years...
...Insurance companies, they charge, are using deceptive tales of excessive damage awards to justify the exorbitant premiums that they charge the public. Says Browne Greene, president-elect of the California Trial Lawyers Association: "Their greed takes us back to the robber barons of the 19th century." Many consumer organizations add that insurers are seeking unjustified premium hikes to cover up their own bad management and poor judgment of risks...