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Attempts to tackle the food-stamp issue have backfired. Last month Bernard Rostker, the Pentagon's new personnel chief, ignited a firestorm when he proposed cutting in half the number of soldiers on food stamps by counting their on-base housing as income. The proposal, not surprisingly, turned out to be a p.r. disaster. The Pentagon would have been cutting its food-stamp rolls not by boosting benefits but by a bookkeeping trick. Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered the scheme scrapped. Instead, Cohen is taking the opposite tack. He wants to stop counting the off-base housing allowance no longer...
Harris and his boss, Bernard D. Rostker, may soon be making paper airplanes with all of their registration cards, however, if Ronald Reagan follows through on his campaign vow to eliminate registration--a program he has called "a meaningless gesture." Reagan has not clarified his plans for Selective Service since the election...
...recently announced that 94 per cent of those eligible had registered, a 1 per cent increase since Rostker announced initial registration statistics in mid September...
...will have nothing to say until November, when the 90-day grace period ends," Bernard D. Rostker, director of the SSS, said yesterday adding that "We are serious about enforcing...
...Rostker refused to comment on "any rumors on how we will identify non-registrants...