This Day In 1970's History: Tuesday September 8, 1981
- Additional budget cuts, totaling $10 billion to $15 billion, are sought by President Reagan in what a White House official described as a "hard-line" effort to preserve the goal of a $42.5 billion deficit in the 1982 fiscal year. A second administration source said that about $3 billion was likely to come from military spending. [New York Times]
- An omnibus appropriations bill is expected to be pressed in Congress soon by the Reagan administration. In prospect as Congress returns from recess tomorrow is a sweeping request for approval of an appropriation measure that would allow for a single vote on an entire package of cuts rather than the usual piecemeal approach in which the legislators are subject to constituent pressures. [New York Times]
- The Justice Department retreated from its position on a controversial case in which two Federal District Courts and a federal appellate court had ruled against the state of Texas. In a brief filed in the Supreme Court, the department said that it had no legal interest in whether a state law that would deny free public education to illegal alien children should be struck down as a violation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. [New York Times]
- Roy Wilkins died in a Manhattan hospital at the age of 80. Mr. Wilkins, the leader of the N.A.A.C.P., was for a half century a prime mover in efforts to improve the social, political and economic life of black Americans, and in his dedication became a skilled politician as well as statesman. [New York Times]
- Vernon Jordan Jr. plans to resign as president of the National Urban League, according to sources close to him. The reason was not disclosed. The sources said that the 46-year-old influential civil rights leader would announce his decision Thursday. [New York Times]
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