Word: combatative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LESTER THUROW, 41. A liberal who remains a moderate Keynesian, Thurow favors tax reductions to fight economic slump. To combat inflation, he opposes inducing a recession or putting on wage and price controls, both of which he considers unfair. Instead, Thurow, who is an M.I.T. professor, advocates removing Government price props, such as subsidies and tariffs...
...increased defense outlays of as much as $7 billion. The recession may trigger further spending; a jump of 2% in the unemployment rate could add $40 billion to the deficit because of lower tax revenues and higher spending on social programs. If there is a tax cut to combat the recession, that alone could push the deficit for fiscal 1980 to $50 billion or $60 billion...
...danger of more civil war seems greatest in El Salvador, the Western Hemisphere's most densely populated country, where 5.3 million people are crowded into an area no larger than Massachusetts. The government of President Carlos Humberto Romero has been locked in combat with three well-organized bands of leftist terrorists. One such group, the Armed Forces of National Resistance, has raised $40 million in the past two years by kidnaping foreign executives and holding them for ransom. Even more threatening from the government's standpoint is the widespread support won by the 70,000-member Popular Revolutionary...
...give "full and thorough consideration" to that request, even though Managua has lately become a mecca for Marxist mischief makers from around the world. The Sandinistas claim that they need the arms to ward off a possible counterattack by 7,000 national guardsmen that Somoza's legendary combat leader, Commandante Bravo, claims to have standing by in Honduras...
...provide an "acceptable alternative multinational force" to replace the U.N. Emergency Force, if necessary. The Israeli opposition to the plan appeared to be inspired partly by pique and partly by legitimate reservations. Angered by a superpower deal arranged over their heads, the Israelis complained that unlike the large, combat-ready Emergency Force, which was created by the entire Security Council, the team of observers would be responsible solely to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...