Word: flows
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...Nicaragua. The Senate is scheduled to consider the bill this week. There is a loophole in the measure, however, that may make it only a symbolic gesture: the CIA could claim that it is using funds not for the purpose of toppling the Sandinistas but of stopping the flow of arms into El Salvador...
Last week, efforts to redress the resulting "imbalance" of world news moved ahead, thanks to an arm of the United Nations. The U. N. body approved a preliminary plan for helping Third World and Soviet bloc countries improve their communications and information flow. But while the problem it is aimed is a real one, the path it prescribes for a "new world information order" is so threatening to the notion of press-freedom that the journey hardly seems worthwhile...
Essentially, the proposed guidelines would regulate the activities of journalists. While developing countries feel such codes are necessary to monitor the flow of news about them. Western countries rightly perceive the plan as a means of legitimizing propaganda campaigns and censoring the content of news report...
Nevertheless the Hansens receive a steady flow of regular customers between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It this year's crop is typical. Pam and Bruce will close shop sometime between their 200th and 250th sale...
...address was followed by comments from a panel of Latin American experts. Lawrence Harrison, a visiting scholar at the IOP and former director of the Agency for International Developments program in Nicaragua, said that "at the root of the conflict between the U.S. and Nicaragua is the arms flow from Nicaragua to El Salvador...