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...military aid to El Salvador on human rights grounds if the cutoff resulted in a victory for a Communist regime that would kill even more indiscriminately. But if Salvadoran rightists do not believe that there is a risk of an aid cutoff, how can they ever be persuaded to curb their terrorism? Said one commissioner: "We never really resolved the dilemma of the death squads vs. the Gulag...
Wila D. Mung'omba, executive president Wila D. Mung'omba, executive president of the Abidjan-based African Development Bank, believes that additional changes are necessary if Africa is to manage an economic recovery successfully. Among them: aid recipients must curb nonessential imports, end policies tailored to deliver cheap food to the cities, and begin giving greater incentives to farmers...
...Harvard got sloppy and lost its energy in the second half, racking up personal fouls and failing to curb the turnovers that plagued it in the first half. The Crimson defense often stymied the Minutemen to the last seconds of the shot clock, only to draw a personal foul and hand the ball right back...
Still, the rattled nerves in Managua could only have pleased the Reagan Administration in Washington, which has long sought to curb Nicaraguan support for leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The four nations that form the so-called Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) announced last week that all the region's governments, including even a wary Nicaragua, had agreed on a schedule for substantive discussions about a comprehensive Central American peace plan. If the Big Pine II exercises and Grenada invasion have encouraged Nicaragua's cooperation, said a State Department official tartly, "so much the better...
Falling revenues force Persian Gulf states to curb their spending