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Although he carefully refrained from personal attacks on Thatcher, Callaghan time and again put forward the warning that a Tory victory would mean more hardship for the average family, more privileges for the rich. "The welfare, the prosperity, the jobs and the care of older people depend upon a Labor majority," he told a partisan crowd of 70 people in the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall last week. Responding to Thatcher's tough stand on union abuses, he charged that Tory plans for legal reforms in industrial relations could lead to a disastrous conflict of views between the unions...
...worst offender is the so-called entitlements program. It was set up under Gerald Ford in 1974 to equalize the burdens of surging import prices between refineries that depend on expensive foreign oil and those with supplies of low-cost domestic petroleum. The complex program works this way: for every barrel of domestic crude that a refinery processes, the company must make a payment into an entitlement pool. The payment raises the price of each barrel of domestic oil halfway up to the cost of more expensive OPEC crude. At the same time, any refinery that imports costlier OPEC crude...
Ultimately, the future of the comunidades could well depend less on their theology than on whether they can avoid the appearance of being merely adjuncts of Marxist revolution in the hemisphere. For the present, the region's poor have the last word. Says Volta Redonda Housewife Sebastiana of the comunidades: "They are schools where we learn to be somebody...
BUSTED GUT: Felske said yesterday he is considering entering Richmond and Martha Roberts in some post-season tournament play, but the Crimson coach added the final decision will depend on how the players feel and how their examination schedules shape...
Although many campus organizations RUS helps finance do not depend solely on RUS for money, Goldstein said, Seventh Sister, Radcliffe's monthly journal, would probably fold without the group's support...