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...move from a ceremonial position to the real challenge of assembling a government that represents everyone, favors no one and functions efficiently. Above all, both Grenada and the U.S. must exercise great skill in striking a careful balance that will promote our development without smothering us under a blanket of dollar bills. Grenada is already grateful to the U.S. If this delicate mission is accomplished, we will have even more reason to be grateful...
Israeli soldiers immediately began to tear away the debris with their bare hands. "A stretcher! A stretcher!" a soldier shouted. A moment later, a litter with a gray blanket covering a body was carried from the bombed-out area. "We discover a body every five minutes," said a colonel, and so it seemed. Five minutes later, another stretcher carried another body to the parking lot of the compound. Soldiers followed two German shepherds who led them to still another body buried in the ruins. "These dogs have already found seven," explained their trainer. Helicopters whipped up dust as they landed...
Linden Tefft, Harvard's director of financial systems, said the University sought to receive blanket amnesty for all past grants to prevent further costly audits...
Reich: Descriptively, I think of an industrial policy as mainly a nation's blanket economic policy--trade, tax, credit, procurement, research and development policies, anti-trust policies--as they affect the pace and direction of economic development, and every nation has an industrial policy. Some of them are good or bad. In the United States, we have a fairly elaborate industrial policy. Almost half of our research and development support for the private sector comes from government. Upwards of 70% to 80% of basic research and development comes from the government. We have a quite elaborate anti-trust and trade...
...with national elections scheduled for Oct. 30, the junta is apparently becoming more desperate. The law has been constructed so that the courts cannot question its provisions and an incoming civilian government cannot reverse the blanket amnesty it grants. Nonetheless, most election candidates rejected the law. Italo Luder of the Peronists and Raul Alfonsin of the Radicals confidently promised to repeal it, if elected. Said Argentine Novelist Ernesto Sabato: "I think that this is the only case in the history of international law in which the guilty dictate a law exonerating themselves...