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There was virtually no dissent on the economic sections of the report. The Reagan Administration has requested $477 million in economic aid to Central America this fiscal year. Kissinger and his colleagues urged that it immediately request $400 million more and then allot a total of $8 billion for fiscal years 1985 through 1989. At an annual average of $1.6 billion, that sum would be'more than triple the current request. The commission proposed that the aid be concentrated on basic needs: food, education, health, and the building of roads, ports and other labor-intensive projects...
...would no doubt like to treat their opposition in the U.S. the way they do in EI Salvador where anyone who breathes a word of protest would be summarily seized, interrogated, imprisoned or "disappeared." The SYL will not, nor should anyone else be intimidated by Epps attempts to crush dissent, political protest and free speech on this campus...
...government also was heartened by the way Reagan handled the topic of human rights, a prickly issue between the two countries since the days of the Carter Administration. South Korean President Chun Boo Hwan sees dissent as grist for the propaganda mills of North Korea and thus tantamount to treason. Reagan has some sympathy for Chun's position, and during the visit he applauded South Korea for its "continued progress toward the broadening of democracy." At one point, during a reception at the U.S. embassy, the President's text called for him to mention "human rights." Aware that...
...part of his strong advocacy of social justice and human rights. However, in routine meetings with American bishops, held in Rome throughout this year, he has made clear his conservative stance on some of the most troublesome issues confronting the U.S. church: divorce, birth control, sexual mores, freedom to dissent from church teachings and, of course, women priests. In addition, the Pope is demanding that the U.S. church abide by a new code of canon law, 24 years in the formulating, which goes into effect next week. Among its rules, which the Vatican expects to be obeyed: all members...
Rushdie introduces true occurrences with the bemused air of someone who finds them much stranger than fiction. Perhaps the only way to understand bizarre reali ties is to make up stories about them. The fact of brutal crackdowns on dissent in Pakistan gives rise to a tale. During his years in power, Iskander creates a Federal Security Force and appoints as its head a man with appropriate powers: "The clairvoyancy of Talvar Ulhaq enabled him to compile exhaustive dossiers on who-was-bribing-whom, on conspiracies, tax evasion, dangerous talk at dinner par ties, student sects, homosexuality, the roots...