Word: sponsors
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After two months of basic training that is similar to U.S. boot camp, the draftees join their assigned active units. They have already received extensive paramilitary preparation. Before draft age, all Soviet males are given 140 hours of military training at school or work. The armed services, moreover, sponsor voluntary organizations whose activities have military application. Among them are sports clubs that specialize in marksmanship, grenade throwing, navigating and parachuting...
...Stevens has charisma, he also has an unusual outside sponsor in Michael Oliver, 51, an American real estate developer, coin dealer and fervent antiCommunist. In the mid-'70s, as the leader of a group called the Phoenix Foundation, Oliver tried-and failed-to build a Utopian, tax-free haven for free enterprise on Abaco, in the Bahamas. Over the past decade, Oliver estimates, he has spent $130,000 on air fares, radios, even flags, in support of Stevens' secession movement...
...Cubans are imprisoned in a bureaucratic snarl. The physical exams and interviews with immigration officials move quickly enough; it is the search for the U.S. residents required to sponsor the refugees that takes time. Those with relatives already in the U.S. stand the best chance of speedy discharge, but finding those relatives is not always easy. The refugees come with telephone numbers but no area codes, addresses a decade or more old, or simply a name and little more -"Juan Diaz, New Jersey...
Californians this week vote on Proposition 9, the proposal to halve the state's personal income tax. Its chief sponsor is Howard Jarvis, the pugnacious architect of the 1978 Proposition 13, which cut property taxes by an average of 56% and set off a series of tax reductions around the country. Though its passage is by no means assured, Proposition 9 is another bold thrust in California's tax revolution. Since 1978, the state has indexed personal tax rates to inflation, put a lid on budget increases and abolished the business inventory tax. Moreover, Governor Jerry Brown...
...must make a breakthrough there. Beginning late last year, the National Organization for Women waged a campaign comparable to the efforts of a presidential candidate in a must-win primary state. NOW opened field operations in all 59 state legislative districts and created 130 ten-member "action teams" to sponsor pro-ERA meetings...