Word: central
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ARMS CONTROL: Opposes SDI. Will cut allnuclear testing and withdraw a third of all U.S.troops based in Europe. CENTRAL AMERICA:Opposes aid to the contras and favors the Ariaspeace plan. DEFICIT: Would raise taxes onthe wealthy and cut defense spending. Suggestsforming an American investment bank that wouldborrow from private pension funds to financepublic programs. EDUCATION: Would combatilliteracy and improve standard of education byincreasing federal funding by $10 billion dollars.TAXES: Will keep the 38.5 percent incometax bracket and implement an oil import tax andexcise tax on luxury goods. Would severely limitdeductions for business meals and entertainment.TRADE: Favors the Gephardt amendment, butacknowleges...
Within the central "Triad," bound by Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. Yet voters would just as soon send a member of the G.O.P. to the statehouse or the White House. "I have voted for J.F.K. and for Barry Goldwater," says Paul Hinkle, a purchasing agent at the Drexel Heritage furniture-manufactu ring plant. "I am a registered Democrat, and I intend to vote, but this is the weakest field I have seen in 35 years...
...last May's general election and supplanted the liberal Progressive Federal Party as the official opposition in Parliament. Kragdadigheid, or a show of strength, is a standard tool in Afrikaner electioneering, and the security of South African borders and the country's white minority has long been the central plank in the National Party's political platform...
Rarely, if ever, had the Soviet Union seen such huge and persistent protests. Day after day, large crowds filled the central square of Yerevan, capital of the Soviet Armenian Republic. About 115 miles to the east, similar throngs clogged the streets of Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, which is mainly populated by ethnic Armenians. In both cities the protesters voiced the same demand: that the Armenian Republic be permitted to annex Nagorno-Karabakh, now part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. "We've reached our limit," said a Yerevan resident by telephone late last week. "If this...
While Moscow is hardly in danger of losing its hold over the restive regions, there has been an undeniable upsurge in nationalist tendencies during the three years since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and launched his campaign for greater openness. In a speech before the Central Committee two weeks ago, Gorbachev described the nationalities question as the "most fundamental, vital issue of our society" and called for a special Central Committee plenum to deal with the problem...