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Monterey Park has become a vivid example of a statewide and even nationwide debate. Three other California towns have already adopted English as their official language, and in November, Californians will vote on Proposition 63, a resolution that would make English the state's official language. It directs the legislature and state officials to "take all steps necessary to insure that the role of English as the common language of the state of California is preserved and enhanced" and requires that no law be made that "diminishes or ignores the role of English." Nationally, a Washington-based group called U.S.English...
...Government has long protected farmers' income by supporting farm prices and by making direct subsidy payments. For many crops, it has established loan rates, like $2.40 for a bushel of wheat in 1986. These rates put a floor under prices. Farmers can then borrow from the Government at the rate set for their crops, offering their unsold harvest as collateral. If the farmers manage to sell their crops on the market at a price higher than the loan rate, they can repay the loan and keep the difference. But if the growers are offered only a price lower than...
Most scientists agree that the small-brained australopithecines were the first manlike creatures to walk upright, 3.5 million or more years ago, and that their evolution ran parallel to that of humanity's direct ancestors. The dispute arises over details. Some researchers, including Anthropologist Donald Johanson, director of the Berkeley-based Institute of Human Origins, think that a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, which includes the celebrated 3 million-year-old skeleton called Lucy, was the common ancestor of all later australopithecines, as well as man. The two branches, they say, split about 3 million years ago, with the Australopithecus line...
...Mandela and the "unbanning" of the African National Congress, the exiled black political movement, in the hope of heading off sanctions. Howe was rebuffed at every turn, both by black leaders angered at Thatcher's refusal to consider sanctions and by the government of State President P.W. Botha for "direct interference" in South Africa's affairs. By mid-July, Kaunda was threatening to leave the Commonwealth if Thatcher remained adamant. Reports were even circulating that Queen Elizabeth II, the titular head of the Commonwealth, was worried about the possibility of its breakup...
...those currents that challenged U.S. policy in Central America, however meekly, have been severely weakened because there was a direct relationship between the Central American capacity to resist U.S. pressure and congressional resistance. I felt confident that none of them want a war. But they feel bought...