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Whether lunch subsidies will be cut any deeper is uncertain. Reagan's advisers are scheduled to decide this week which further cuts in entitlement programs to recommend, and Stockman has made no secret of his desire "to take more out of the school lunch program. But any additional reductions will meet resistance in Congress, even from loyal Reaganites. House Republican Leader Robert Michel last week sent a letter to the American School Food Service Association asserting hopefully: "I don't believe any further cuts are contemplated by the Administration or Congress at this time. We recognize that...
Does Israel really want outright annexation of the West Bank? Probably not, although the heavy Jewish migration into a region that was almost totally Arab has made Israel's intentions uncertain. Today the West Bank has 72 Jewish settlements, with a population of 24,000. Fourteen more communities are under construction. These outposts are inhabited mainly by middleclass, well-educated Israelis, who believe that the Bible gives them a timeless right to the land and who insist they will not move, come what...
...When the facts are halfway uncertain, the jury will decide the case in terms of what they think is just -which is what they should do," says Hans Zeisel, professor emeritus of law and sociology at the University of Chicago and co-author of The American Jury (1966). Adds Robert Hanley, a senior partner in the Chicago firm of Jenner & Block: "Jurors are great at picking out the gut issue and deciding on that. They can tell whether a chairman of the board is lying or not, and that's what it comes down...
...federal court opinions that, among other things, legalized abortion, outlawed school prayer and supported the use of busing to achieve desegregation. Even before those rulings were handed down, conservative wrath had been aroused by the federal judiciary's strong protection of the rights of defendants and its uncertain approach to pornography. And conservatives have never been happy about the modern judiciary's penchant for the sort of activism that has prompted some federal judges, like Frank Johnson of Alabama, to take over the administration of prisons or busing programs as a way of guaranteeing constitutional rights. For this...
...civil rights movement braces for an uncertain future...