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...reduction in arrests by secret police and named the Salvadoran officials believed to be organizers of the death squads, whom the U.S. wants sent out of the country-or else. Washington evidently stopped just short of threatening a cutoff of its $65 million in military aid, which would probably doom the Salvadoran government. Explained one U.S. diplomat: "We're saying, 'Clean up your act or we won't be able to save you-and we might not even try.'" The Salvadoran government asked Washington for technical help from U.S. law-enforcement experts to prosecute the assassins...
...deal with companies in that area [Cambridge] such as Raytheon and [Charles Stark] Draper Laboratories," said Richard G. Doom, of Litton's strategic systems division...
...projected to increase 2% to 3% this year. In fact, Paramount has come up with a way to make cassette sales a boon to the box office. The Raiders tape contains tantalizing previews from a follow-up coming to theaters in May: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...movie (Death of a Centerfold) lie in the way he defeats one's conventional expectations of his material. Mariel Hemingway's Dorothy is not the tragic tart that custom usually dictates in works of this kind. In an arrestingly straightforward, naturalistic performance, Hemingway suggests neither portents of doom nor a sense that she is self-destructively abandoning herself to a media fairy tale from which the only possible awakening is a rude one. If her physical resemblance to Stratten is only approximate, her portrayal of an adolescent girl caught up, giggly and unaware, in the excitement...
...sense, the prophets of doom and the harbingers of progress are both right about the public schools. The American education system is so complex and diverse that signs of hope mingle with tokens of disaster even within the same schools. Says Theodore Sizer, former headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and head of a new study on high schools: "You find marvelous things going on and not so marvelous things going on." Any report card on the public schools would have to consider at least four major areas: curriculum and standards, teaching, funding and community support...