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...White House, however, remained vague on exactly what it was selling. Administration officials so far have identified only broad areas on which the ax will fall: revenue sharing for states and various job-training programs, for example. Critics charged that Carter was craftily withholding a detailed list of programs to be canceled or trimmed for fear that it would cost him votes in the key primaries in Illinois last week and New York this week. Ted Kennedy called the delay in recommending specific cuts "one of the most cynical aspects of the campaign." Press Secretary Jody Powell replied, "That allegation...
Formosa was tolerated for several months by the authorities and even allowed to hold about a dozen indoor rallies in various cities across the island. But the magazine was banned in a sweeping crackdown against the opposition last December. The crunch came when Formosa 's leaders organized a rally in the city of Kaohsiung. The rally turned into the bloodiest riot in two decades; 183 policemen were reported injured...
...starvation diet, meager sips of water tasting of camel urine, and lots of silence were all he seemed to need. Time and again he sought remote areas of the Muslim world where "it is as meritorious to kill a Christian as to go on the pilgrimage." He traveled under various auspices: in the Sudan Political Service, and as a locust-control officer and a soldier during World War II serving in Ethiopia, Syria, Egypt and Palestine...
Lobbyists of various sorts are mobilizing to guard their interests. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action claims to have organized a coalition of 50 labor, youth, civic and religious groups to block reductions in social spending. Carter's program, says the A.D.A., is "a cruel deception of the people." A coalition of 39 women's groups has warned its members to watch for any budget cuts that might be unfavorable to women...
...visit to the Mine Shaft, he constructs an unconvincing apologia: "What is happening around you smacks of decadence. But not of evil. These places are not hellholes of murder. There are no victors and victims. It is all theater, and these guys are pussycats." Well, not really. In various Village Voice articles on the leather bars, Bell has made the point that many homosexuals, far from being pussycats, seem to crave danger along with their sex. For example, one of the most popular trysting spots for New York gays in the mid-'70s was a rotting pier in Greenwich...