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...also hope that S. Allen Counter, the new head of the Foundation, will place appropriate weight on the particular needs of minority students. The Foundation is now open-ended: its success will depend on Counter's ability to mobilize support from the whole community and to come up with creative programming. The most significant finding of last year's committee was that Third World students often experience alienation, and Counter should keep that in mind as he forges ahead...
...initial headlines on the controversial package behind them before Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's visit to the White House next week. Despite predictions by Senate Majority Leader Baker that the Senate, at least, will not vote to block the sale, a close fight looms. The outcome could depend on how strenuously Reagan personally joins the battle. Conceded Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon, a leading opponent of the sale: "If this is a no-holds-barred fight, I'm not saying...
Wilkes: That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
...execution. "These taxes no longer relate to the depletion of a state's resources,'' says Richard McClure, an aide to Illinois Governor Jim Thompson. "Energy-rich states are now exporting their tax burdens around the country." A study by the Commerce Department shows that nine states depend heavily on severance-tax income to run their governments. In Louisiana, 23% of the 1978 state budget came from these taxes; in Wyoming, 22%; in Alaska and New Mexico, 19%; and in Texas...
Discussing other foreign affairs, Begin last week said that he would recommend accepting any Reagan Administration proposal for a written alliance between the U.S. and Israel. Begin also called on the Soviet Union to resume diplomatic ties with Israel, but added that such an agreement would depend upon Moscow's allowing Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate if they so desire...