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...extraordinary private message from President Reagan. The letter demanded a reduction in arrests by secret police and named the Salvadoran officials believed to be organizers of the death squads, whom the U.S. wants sent out of the country-or else. Washington evidently stopped just short of threatening a cutoff of its $65 million in military aid, which would probably doom the Salvadoran government. Explained one U.S. diplomat: "We're saying, 'Clean up your act or we won't be able to save you-and we might not even try.'" The Salvadoran government asked Washington for technical...
This is highly significant because it means that the Arab oil exporting nations could seriously injure the South African economy if they were to cut off their supplies. An Israeli trade cutoff simply could not have that effect. Moreover, these same countries can afford to lose one trading partner; Israel, with its huge trade deficit and its astronomic inflation (partly due to an Arab-sponsored economic boycott) cannot...
...With kids coming from unequal backgrounds. I don't know how fair it would be to use this rule as the only criteria," he says. Jackson adds that the 700 cutoff mark would be especially detrimental to Black student athletes since "their national median is 707," about 100 points lower than that of whites. He adds, "What makes reports interesting to me is that an issue like the NCAA rule is applicable to public policy decisions like affirmative action, teacher entrance exams, and busing...
...bill. The House version would cost $11.5 billion over five years, $8 billion more than the Senate bill and too much for the budget cutters at the White House. While the Senate would declare amnesty for illegals who arrived before 1980, the House sponsors wanted to move the cutoff date up to 1982, thereby making millions more immigrants eligible for Government programs...
...separate action, the committee agreed to study whether a proposal SAT cutoff score of 700 was a fair standard for allowing freshmen to play varsity sports...