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...this canvas of dollar-sign diplomacy last week came a new, but hardly unexpected, brush stroke: a drastic increase in assistance to the controlling military regime of El Salvador. Drawn, appropriately enough, from the Pentagon's increased revenue, $55 million will go to the Central American country, $25 million ostensibly to replace helicopters destroyed in a raid last week by leftist guerrillas on a military airbase, the rest to fund renewed opposition to that guerrilla insurrection against the nation's coalition of civilian and military rulers. According to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., the United States...
...more drastic solution, and one the College may eventually be forced into, would be to discontinue the policy of guaranteeing all accepted applicants as much aid as they need. Though administrators remain "firmly committed" to promising all students enough money to attend, they say they must consider the possibility that aid obeys a law of diminishing returns. If the burden of loans and work-study becomes too heavy, Jewett says, "It may just not be worth while to come here...
...Community and Japan held two days of meetings in Key Biscayne, Fla. One of the messages of the session was a warning to Japan's Minister of Trade and Industry, Shintaro Abe, that his country must open its market to more imports. Abe replied that Japan would take "drastic" action before the end of the month to make it easier for the U.S. and other countries to sell their products in Japan...
...whole undergraduate body, yes, and for all the graduates too, to show with all their strength that they are to a man behind the eleven." As in so many cases, Roosevelt thought defeat could ultimately be traced to a lack of proper spirit, and he recommended drastic action, calling for a "reorganization" of the University band. "Still more important is the cheering. Not only was the leading, but also the response, poor on Saturday, Let us have one competent leader with a few good assistants...
Duehay formed a mayor's committee on Proposition 21/2 to combat the drastic tax cut approved by Bay State voters two years...