Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staunchly defending a program devised largely before his appointment, the Secretary earned praise and respect from his White House colleagues. Said...
...surprise of the moderate Republicans and the pleasure of ranking committee Democrat Edward Kennedy, the Administration agreed at the meeting to make significant concessions. The largest federal education program, funds for school districts that serve disadvantaged children, was kept as a categorical grant. So were programs for education of handicapped, adult and bilingual students. Of the $13 billion available for education, only $585 million was put into a block grant. The committee also refused to go along with Reagan's plan to eliminate legal aid for the poor, though funding was cut from $321 million to $100 million. Many...
...fraudulent" spending cuts that will inevitably be reversed-such as the elimination of 10,000 post offices. The solution being considered at OMB: introducing in Congress a detailed, 4,000-page Administration alternative to the House Budget Committee's reconciliation package, complete with the serious spending cuts and program-absorbing block grants that Reagan wants. That would surely provoke a second budget battle more heated than the first. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Jeanne Saddler/Washington
...Hussein, Iraq's dictatorial President, made a nuclear shopping trip to Paris. The Israeli Defense Ministry soon began to predict that the Iraqis would be capable of producing atom bombs within four to six years. In September 1975, a Lebanese newspaper article quoted Hussein as saying that the nuclear program was "the first Arab attempt toward nuclear arming, although the official declared purpose of construction of the reactor is not nuclear weapons." A similar statement was made in 1977 by Naim Haddad, a member of Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council. Said Haddad: "The Arabs must get a bomb...
...reactor's delivery for two years. The French thought that the attack was the work of MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence organization. French sources also believe that Israelis warned French scientists and technicians to stay out of Iraq. On June 14,1980, the Egyptian-born head of Iraq's nuclear program, Yahia El-Meshad, was bludgeoned to death at the Hotel Méridien in Paris. No assailant was arrested, but again, the French suspected MOSSAD...