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...country to leave, and British officials in Buenos Aires are asking them to register at the Swiss embassy, which is handling London's interests. "We're just counting our flock," says one diplomat. So are the Argentines: plain-clothes policemen are reported to be conducting a census of Britons in Buenos Aires. Anglo-Argentines are feeling suddenly vulnerable in a country where weeks ago it was a mark of status to be British. Says one nervous Anglo-Argentine: "Everybody's scared. We've never been faced before with this situation of having to separate...
...subsidized housing. Since 1965, the market value of those benefits has grown from $2.2 billion to more than $72 billion, and the programs account for two out of every three dollars of Government aid received by the poor. To determine poverty levels more accurately, the Senate asked the Census Bureau to find a way to put a dollar value on the benefits received by low-income families...
...People can bring to this report whatever conclusions they want," said Census Bureau Director Bruce Chapman. "We hope it will be used as a point of departure for discussion." Conservatives can use its findings to argue that poverty is less of a national problem than people have thought; liberals can contend the figures prove the importance of social programs the Administration wants to cut still further. Census Bureau experts say it is too early to take any action based on the study, since they have not yet compared the monetary value of benefits for the poor with those that primarily...
...miracle from Nairobi: the first census of all religions...
Frank is considered one of the leading young liberals in Congress. He won his first term in what had traditionally been a Democratic district. But the Commonwealth lost a Congressional seat following the 1980 census, and the ensuing redistricting combined Frank's turf with that of 15-year veteran Republican Rep. Margaret Heckler. Three-fourths of the new area is made up of Heckler's old district, and Frank, by all counts, faces a tough fight for reelection...