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...array of consumer advocates, environmentalists and public interest groups contend that such savings are illusory and that the cost of a relaxed federal vigil in health and safety has not been accurately computed. By their reckoning, the American public has come out a loser. "Health and safety laws were passed by Congress to save lives and reduce injuries," declares Joan Claybrook, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under President Carter. "The Reagan Administration is doing just the opposite...
Administration officials contend, probably with some justice, that the displays of power on several fronts have already made Nicaragua and even Cuba more conciliatory. They claim that underwriting a 10,000-man force of anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan guerrillas, contras, who fight from bases in Honduras, is designed to achieve the same end. The concern among observers is whether the White House policy managers are adept enough at this delicate diplomatic and military game to know when to call off the troops and strike a bargain. So far, however, U.S. allies seem comparatively unalarmed by Reagan's military responses...
...learn more in school. It is also used as a defense for Jackson's other major project, a series of "trade covenants" in which large corporations agree to hire more blacks and use the services of minority-owned businesses. Jackson's critics, on the other hand, contend that results are meager because Jackson does not tend the orchard long enough to ensure a harvest...
...executives and law scholars, however, contend that Craft's victory reflected unusual circumstances, and that it will have limited impact on stations' legal freedom to change personnel. The importance of the case, they said, was that it prompted ethical debate about TV's treatment of women and other issues: the rise of show-business values and market research over news judgment; the role of consultants in shaping a newscast's style, cast and content; the concept of anchors as personalities rather than reporters. Those trends started in local news, but are spreading to the networks, according...
...bloodshed was triggered by the incendiary actions of a small group of Tamil extremists who contend that their race, which accounts for 11% of the nation's 15 million people, should be granted a separate homeland in northern Sri Lanka. Over the past six years the secessionists have planted bombs, set government buildings ablaze and, according to the government, killed 73 Sinhalese in and around the Tamil-dominated northern city of Jaffna. Only two weeks ago, Tamil terrorists ambushed and slaughtered 13 Sinhalese soldiers...