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...binge, the state could afford to let spending rise 59% between 1984 and '88. Then recession hit, the shopping spree ended and sales- tax revenue was reduced to a trickle. For this fiscal year, Connecticut is looking at a $500 million shortfall, which is expected to triple in the next. That would amount to 20% of the state's projected $7.9 billion budget for fiscal 1991, proportionately the highest deficit acknowledged so far by any state. Governor-elect Lowell Weicker, who has asked all state agencies to propose budget cuts of up to 20%, is thinking of the unthinkable...
...Rights Act of 1990 on the ground that it encouraged employment quotas, the scholarship compromise threatened to alienate further the black constituency that some Republican strategists have been urging the President to cultivate. It also emboldened congressional Democrats to redouble their efforts to pass a new civil rights bill next year...
...Education nominee faces the unenviable task of explaining the minority-scholarship policy at his confirmation hearings next month. But if anyone can bring some sense of political harmony to the issue, it may well be the pragmatic Alexander, a musically versatile classical pianist who also likes to sit in with Tennessee washboard bands. Commenting last week on the financial-aid flap, he deftly declared, "I find it's often best to approach questions of this kind with a warm heart and common sense...
Last week government officials attempted to calm emotions with a promise of unspecified increases in wages and improved social benefits. Morocco's ills, however, are not easily fixed. Under an austerity program drawn up by the badly indebted country, only 15,210 new jobs will be created next year -- meager pickings for the 350,000 young Moroccans who will enter the labor market...
...conference ended with a warning that the A.N.C. would pull out of talks with Pretoria unless the government freed all political prisoners and permitted all exiles to return by next April 30. Delegates also threatened a campaign of strikes and boycotts to back up their demands. President F.W. de Klerk warned in turn against such "outmoded" radicalism, calling on the A.N.C. to decide whether it wanted peaceful, negotiated solutions or a return to the confrontations of the past...