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Many states have begun mandating seat belt use since New York was the first state to do so last January. The bill's supporters argued that New York's law was successful, decreasing highway fatalities by 27 percent in its first three months on the books...
...stand on issues. After a vigorous campaign to abolish the ! death penalty and expand prisoners' rights, the party was forced by rising crime rates to back away from such liberalizations. Plagued by two-digit inflation in 1982, Mitterrand put pragmatism before ideology and turned from big-spending policies to belt-tightening austerity. Although it champions self-determination in Third World nations, the government has moved cautiously in meeting the demands of separatists in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Last year Mitterrand replaced Premier Pierre Mauroy, a populist, with Laurent Fabius, a technocrat who avidly supports the President...
Beleagured San Salvador has found a champion in the shape of North Arizona University archaeologist Charles Hoffman, who has been conducting a dig near the alleged landing site. So far Hoffman has found a Spanish coin dating from approximately 1474, broken Spanish crockery, belt buckles, and ship planking nails...
...agenda is Washington's aggressive new approach to the debt problem. Until last week, the Administration was seemingly content to go along with the IMF's stop-gap strategy of extending short-term loans and imposing painful belt-tightening programs on Third World nations. Sensing that those countries are being crushed by their debt burdens, the U.S. now believes that their only hope lies in faster economic growth. To achieve that goal, Washington thinks the IMF should enlist the help of the World Bank, a cash-rich agency that has largely remained aloof from the debt thicket. The Administration wants...
...good reasons of its own for wanting to ease the debt load. The potential for a massive default still hangs over the nation's banking system. In addition, the Third World's severe belt tightening has dried up a possible market for U.S.-manufactured goods. The United Auto Workers Union estimates that cutbacks by debtor nations cost 1.1 million U.S. jobs between...