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...administration to states and localities, along with sufficient taxing power to finance the case load. But welfare already is administered by states and communities; that nasty caseworker is typically a county or municipal employee. How would giving the locals total power over money and regulations change anything...
...Phillies had two golden opportunities to win the game. In the bottom of the seventh, after singles by Larry Bowa and Bob Boone, and an intentional walk to Pete Rose to load the bases, relievers Joe Sambito and Dave Smith struck out Bake McBride and Mike Schmidt. In the ninth, with the bases filled, Frank Lacorte struck out Mannie Trillo and got Garry Maddox...
...about the same time the Iraqis sent their bombers against Iranian oil facilities across the Shatt al Arab at Abadan and farther south against Kharg island, where 14 tankers at a time can load crude. At Abadan, one of the biggest refineries in the world (587,000 bbl.-per-day capacity) and the principal source of fuel for Iran's domestic needs, flames and smoke shot skyward. "There are going to be a lot of cold Iranians this winter as a result," said a U.S. diplomat monitoring the fighting. In Tehran, the government decreed that no gasoline would...
Conscious of then-past problems, Atlanta Airport officials are already planning a fourth runway that will be ready for landings and takeoffs in 1983. By the year 2000, Hartsfield will be able to handle 75 million passengers a year, nearly double the present load. Even transfers to heaven or to hell should now be easier in Atlanta...
...certain to contain some relief for Americans abroad. The Senate Finance Committee has approved an increase in the salary tax exemption to $50,000 for workers in developing countries or employees of largely export-oriented firms. The Administration has proposed a more modest measure that would lessen the tax load for Americans in hardship posts like the Middle East, but not for those, for example, in Western Europe, Canada and South Africa. Insiders believe that the Senate's version is more likely to be passed. One stumbling block in the Carter proposal is how to define a hardship post...