Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production and employment. If, as Republic can true believers hope, a powerful recovery begins by spring, promising to create many new jobs and raise incomes sharply enough to hike Government revenues and shrink those menacing deficits, much of the present opposition to Reagan's fiscal policy would disappear...
Unfortunately for U.S. planners, El Salvador, a beautiful country of lush vegetation and picturesque mountain gorges, is currently one of the most violent lands in the world. An estimated 20,000 Salvadorans have been killed in the past two years alone. As many as 1,000 are murdered or disappear each month. Last week, for example, at least 19 people were killed during an antiguerrilla sweep by the Salvadoran army through a poor suburb of the nation's capital, San Salvador. According to the army, the victims were subversives who put up an armed resistance to the raid...
...despite formidable obstacles," the Duarte government has made a "concerted, significant and good-faith effort to deal with the complex political, social and human rights problems it is confronting." The document made it clear that those problems were by no means solved. (As many as 1,000 people still disappear or are murdered each month in El Salvador by death squads of both the left and the right.) But the U.S. claimed that "progress is being made...
...guarantees no new jobs or job training--making it all too easy for businesses to nab giant tax breaks by hiring a few residents of the zone as custodial workers. Indeed, housing and other social service budgets that largely support America's inner cities would continue to shrink or disappear--making any hope for urban revival through the zone plan dim at best...
...reasonable. It would be reasonable too if they loved them less simply for being grownups, for being partly responsible for the weeping in the streets. Yet they seem to love their parents more, not less. They only love them with greater caution. Everything these children touch may explode or disappear...