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...statement, Reagan said he was sending Habib to meet with leaders of both political parties as well as with church and government officials and representatives of private sector groups...
...been its proposal to sell Conrail, the Government-owned railroad formed from the remains of the bankrupt Penn Central, to Norfolk Southern, a private railroad, for $1.2 billion. Said President Reagan in a talk two weeks ago: "Government ownership is no way to run a railroad. When the private sector can deliver better service for less money than the public sector, as it can with Conrail, then the Government must step aside." Congress moved closer to approving the Conrail sale last week when the Senate defeated an effort by opponents of the plan to challenge it on antitrust grounds...
Despite the opposition, the Administration is continuing to study the possibility of selling the FHA and spinning off many other Government operations. The President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control concluded in 1984 that privatization could save the Government $28.4 billion over a three- year period. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group, has drawn up a privatization plan that its authors claim would cut the federal deficit by $10.8 billion by 1987. It includes selling the Washington airports and the FHA and contracting out some Postal Service activities...
...during the Nixon Administration. But WIN suffered from inadequate funding, mismanagement and weak enforcement. In 1981, with the advent of the Reagan Administration, Congress passed legislation granting states more flexibility in administering WIN. For the first time, AFDC recipients could work in public agencies rather than in private-sector jobs. States were also allowed to use part of a recipient's welfare grant as a wage subsidy to his or her private employer. Given these new liberties, state governments began cooking up fresh workfare programs. "Obligation" is a word that workfare supporters use frequently, arguing that welfare recipients have...
...they listened over their shortwave radios, with a battle raging sporadically around them, the British civilians stranded in Aden, the capital of South Yemen, could hardly believe their ears. A BBC announcer in London told them to assemble in "the northeast sector of the Soviet-embassy compound, repeat the Soviet-embassy compound, from which you will be taken to the beaches for evacuation...