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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats should jump on this potent issue before the Republicans claim it. Under Reagan, both the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget proposed limiting T and E deductions. If Democrats are serious about favoring the working class and opposing corporate free-loaders, they should eliminate the T and E deduction entirely...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Wall Street's Food Stamps | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Several months ago, Iran informed the tribunal that in its view most of the claims had been paid out. Tehran wanted the balance, now about $820 million, that remained of the $1.4 billion the account originally held. In 1987 the Reagan Administration had unsuccessfully resisted a similar $500 million claim by Iran against a different account. This time the Bush Administration responded by dispatching Sofaer to the Hague. As part of the deal that was eventually reached, Iran agreed that $243 million from the account will be transferred to a third fund, covering claims against Iran by individual American citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game of Winks and Nods | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Navy's claim that Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig deliberately ignited the explosion that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship U.S.S. Iowa last April | has failed to convince many critics. New doubts have been raised now that an insurance company has paid off on the double-indemnity policy Hartwig took out 17 months before the explosion. The beneficiary: Hartwig's former shipmate, Kendall Truitt, who will get $101,000 (and who has agreed to give part of the money to Hartwig's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy: Payoff for a Shipmate | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Amex Life Assurance Co. decided to award the money despite the Navy's conclusion that Hartwig may have engineered the blast to commit suicide. But the company disputes the claim by Truitt's lawyer that the payoff disproves the Navy's findings. Said a spokesman: "Amex is not saying that ((Hartwig)) did or did not commit suicide. What Amex is saying is that there is not enough evidence to deny a claim based on suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy: Payoff for a Shipmate | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...important to examine homophobia and the role it plays in the military. Harvard has an explicit policy protecting the rights of gay students. The U.S. military and ROTC are in conflict with this policy because they do not allow gays, lesbians or bisexuals to join the services, claiming that we are more susceptible to blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim is simply not true. The D O D has commissioned yet a third study, indicating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No R.O.T.C. on Campus | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

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