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...demonstration the next day to denounce U.S. threats to Nicaragua. THE PEOPLE WILL RESPOND TO REAGAN IN THE STREETS, blared the Thursday headline of Barricada, the official Sandinista paper. More than 50,000 gathered for the rally in the sweltering afternoon sun, a somewhat smaller crowd than had been forecast by the government. Carrying rifles, sticks, shovels and hand-carved replicas of guns, they marched past a theater showing the 1980 American film Brubaker to the Plaza de la Revoluci?...
...President Evelyn Handler announced Monday that a special review panel including Harry Parker, coach of the Harvard men's team, will look into why Hayes might have left the boat, and why the boats were out despite a forecast of bad weather...
...million that has been appropriated so far this year. Various Senate and House subcommittees will vote on parts of the aid proposal this week. Rejection of the measure would be a major blow to U.S. policy in El Salvador. According to the Administration's own gloomy forecast, the Salvadoran government is in danger of losing its war against some 6,000 guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) unless the Salvadoran army receives more money, arms and advisers...
...White House turned bullish too. Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that the Administration would soon hike its forecast for this year's G.N.P. growth rate, from 3.1% to perhaps 5%. That optimism was buoyed by the news that the index of leading economic indicators jumped 3.6% in January, its biggest one-month gain in nearly 33 years. Oil prices could be magical at keeping inflation down. At $30, the price, adjusted for inflation, would be only 28% above its 1974 level...
Testifying Monday before the Ways and Means Committee, Eckstein predicted that the state's recovery from the recession will trail the nation's by six to 10 months. His testimony was based on a forecast by a new Data Resources model, which he developed...