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...nation cannot merely be abandoned. The new approach -- being tried with some success in states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey and New York -- is to require recipients to enter training and job-placement programs. In some of the proposals, the Federal Government would become the employer of last resort...
...independent Beirut newspaper An-Nahar yesterday quoted Paul Blanc, the new French ambassador, as saying: "Although we care for the hostages and think daily about contacts and means we could resort to in order to secure their safe release, we refuse to be slaves to the kidnappers to which many of our compatriots fell victim...
Republican Presidential Candidate Pete DuPont felt the political undercurrents of AIDS while addressing the Council for National Policy, a somewhat secretive club of New Right activists and contributors, at the Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Fla., last month. A teenager in the audience drew a standing ovation when he asked the former Delaware Governor whether he agreed that AIDS was a sign from God that homosexuality is an "abomination." When DuPont replied that AIDS was a "medical problem, not a moral problem," he was booed. Said an activist in the audience: "DuPont blew...
Some mountain resorts have been wary of snowboards, fearing that hotdogging teenagers would intimidate regular skiers. Snow Summit, near Los Angeles, Vail in Colorado, and Sugarbush in Vermont are a few places that ban the board, but more than 100 ski areas nationwide allow it. Because rentals are cheaper and paraphernalia not as grand, many resort owners think snow surfing may attract a whole new crowd to try out the slopes. The sport has already achieved the organized trappings of respectability. Next month Breckenridge will play host to the World Snowboard Classic, with more than 200 competitors from ten countries...
...course, there are holdouts, purists who scorn the brash intruders. Complains veteran Vermont Skier Mary Simons: "Snowboarding is not about grace and style but about raging hormones. It is adolescent boys with their newest toy." Ralph DesLauriers, owner of the Bolton Valley Resort in Vermont, compares the gripers with "people in the horse-drawn carriages reacting to cars driving by." At least skiers can be grateful that snowboarders cannot gun their engines and spew exhaust...