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Since 60% of U.S. assistance to Nicaragua supports the private sector, an aid cutoff might well undermine the moderate, pro-democratic groups that the U.S. wants to encourage. It would also cost the U.S. its remaining leverage with the Nicaraguan regime and could give Sandinista hard-liners an excuse to end any pretense at political pluralism and turn even more openly to the Soviet Union and its allies for support. An American diplomat in Managua, fearing the results of an aid cut off, cited an ominous parallel: "Twenty years ago in Cuba, we left no doors open. Here, there...
...backstroke and 50-yd. backstroke. Palmer's time of 27.92 in the 50-yd. back was fast enough to qualify her for the AIAW National swimming championships next spring, and her time of 2:09.0 in the 200-yd. backstroke put her well under the Eastern Seaboard Championship cutoff...
...Edward J. King mobilized the state National Guard as service stopped. The guardsmen will be used to help maintain security at the system's stations and to aid travellers stranded by the cutoff...
...Edward J. King mobilized the state National Guard as service stopped. The guardsmen will be used to help maintain security at the system's stations and to aid travellers stranded by the cutoff...
...cuts; business would get $15.7 billion. But there is one key difference: Carter's plan for individual reductions would be used to offset the scheduled 1981 increase in Social Security taxes. This would reduce taxes for everyone with incomes up to $29,700 a year (next year's cutoff point for Social Security payroll taxes), but have no effect on the marginal rates for workers who make more. This, say conservative economists, would limit the tax cut's effect on providing individual incentives for increased productivity and willingness to seek work...