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...daily La Prensa and promised that its criticism of the Sandinista government would not be censored, as it has been in the past. The government even gave the economically shaky newspaper funds to buy scarce and expensive newsprint, the shortage of which brought La Prensa to the brink of shutdown last week. The Sandinistas have also sent home some 2,100 Cuban technicians, teachers and other workers whose presence in Nicaragua was a primary cause of concern to the Reagan Administration. An undisclosed number of Cuban military advisers remain...
...brink is reached. Less than 150 miles separate advancing U.S. and Soviet troops. U.S. strategic nuclear forces go on alert, but the NSC refuses their field commander's request for tactical nuclear weapons. In the end, a combination of resolve and restraint wins a kind of peace: after the NSC orders air strikes to sever the Soviet supply routes, Muskie and his U.S.S.R. counterpart exchange messages, and they agree to negotiate a pullback...
...numbers. The game began in earnest last January and could, thanks to crowded conditions, easily extend into 1985. The action takes different forms: an apparently endless round of academic seminars and symposiums, coast to coast, from Manhattan College to Stanford; a swelling stream of magazine articles ("On the Brink of 1984") and books (1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century); a CBS documentary last June anchored by Walter Cronkite, plus some six hours of TV programming to be shown in England...
EVERYTHING in sport revolves around money, and all the major ones have pressing problems, but in none as much as football. Professional hockey and basketball are teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse and increasingly poor play is diminishing fan interest. Baseball is sounder for a variety of reasons. It demands more skill than physical force, the season is much longer, the players have the strongest collective bargaining agreement in sports, the teams mercifully have avoided all but the barest of playoff series, and the sport somehow does not lend itself to betting...
...than an urgent problem. Despite a few genuine efforts to do what everyone knew had to be done-raise revenues and reduce spending-the week ended with a blizzard of babbling and fruitless finger-pointing between Congress and the White House that brought the Government once again to the brink of a breakdown. "I am not rinding any leadership at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue," said Democrat James Jones of Oklahoma, the chairman of the House Budget Committee...