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Fortunately for the U.S., the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, known as the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), are also in disarray following an internal dispute that left two of their leaders dead. But they still dominate almost half of the countryside. Since the conflict began in 1979, they have disrupted the Salvadoran economy by inflicting up to $600 million in damages to farms, factories and utilities...
...Republicans' disarray was most evident in the Senate Budget Committee, chaired by New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici. The committee stuck to its earlier decision to limit next year's military spending to a real increase of 5%, even though Reagan aides had belatedly signaled that he might accept a 7.5% hike instead of the 10% that he has been demanding. It also recommended raising $267 billion in additional revenue over the next five years to avoid budget deficits of $200 billion or more each year. This new revenue was $60 billion more than the Administration had indicated...
Sensing the disarray in his life and work, Wilson resolved to regroup. The former habitue of cheap apartments and rented rooms writes of buying a house on Cape Cod. He outlines a never-completed novel about lives in transition. There are amorous adventures and travels to Greece, Haiti and New Mexico. He continues to survey the literary scene with visits to a suspicious and embittered Evelyn Waugh, to a mourning John Dos Passos, "whose voice would seem about to choke or tremble," and to a Roman convent where Philosopher George Santayana "slept, in his plain single bed, in the consciousness...
Ronald Reagan had been beset before by political defeats and disarray, but never in such a cherished domain of his Administration. Whatever his struggles and stumbles on the economy and social issues, the President had always managed to press his program for national defense with seemingly unassailable determination and confidence. Yet last week-in Congress, public opinion and international negotiations-it was precisely his efforts to strengthen and protect the nation's military security that were in trouble...
Last week, nearly a third of a century after that first surge of power and four years after the notorious incident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island generating station, the business of nuclear power in America was still in disarray, and it has turned out to be anything but cheap. The industry is plagued by searing cost overruns, unfinished plants, waste-disposal problems and environmental suits, shoddy workmanship, tricky technology, constantly changing safety regulations, disillusioned shareholders, weak political support and public mistrust...