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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ortega was not alone in his attempt to wriggle free of rigid positions that could prove too constrictive in the weeks ahead. All five Central American Presidents who signed the peace plan in Guatemala City three months ago are now downplaying the Nov. 5 cease-fire deadline, and have begun referring to the date as the beginning of a peace process rather than a cutoff for achieving the accord's goals. "We never expected that peace and democracy would descend from heaven on Nov. 5," insists a Costa Rican official. In Washington, where congressional opposition promises to doom the White...
...economists generally believe any attempt to restore the Louvre values would push the Federal Reserve back into a dangerous high-interest-rate policy and would be bound to fail anyway. "Willy-nilly the dollar is going to fall in the next two to three years," says Charles Schultze, who headed the Council of Economic Advisers under Jimmy Carter. Feldstein figures that the dollar would have to drop 30% in five years to reach a sustainable value and adds that if natural market forces were left to work unhindered, most of that decline would occur in the next twelve months...
Indeed, the experiment represents an attempt by Monsanto to accommodate regulatory guidelines that many scientists think are too strict. It is also aimed at mollifying public fears. Monsanto had originally planned to test a strain of Pseudomonas altered to produce a natural insecticide. The EPA nixed the field test, mainly because its formal evaluation was incomplete. Still, worried residents living near the Missouri test site protested loudly...
...Manila alone, some 50 killings have been attributed to the sparrows this year. The N.P.A. had threatened to target American personnel after the U.S. announcement of increased military aid to Manila following the August coup attempt. Indeed, the guerrillas boasted that they would kill one American for each of the ten armored personnel carriers that the Reagan Administration delivered to the Aquino government last week. U.S. military officials ordered service members and their families at both Clark and the Subic Bay naval base to restrict travel outside the camps to essential trips and to avoid using side roads...
...right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed medium-range missile treaty; this attempt to score points by implying that Ronald Reagan may be soft on the Soviets showed * the strong pull exerted by the party's right wing. The conservative tide was so fierce that at one point Dole felt compelled to declare, "The Government is here to stay...