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Surprisingly, Reagan has stumbled into one fairly good idea about how to bring businesses back into distressed urban areas. His endorsement of the Kemp-Garcia bill proposes to set up tax free zones in areas like the South Bronx. It represents a move toward a more active use of the tax incentive in urban renewal efforts. Tax incentives can help, but Reagan overestimates just how much. Even Rep. Robert Garcia, who sponsored the legislation, thinks that his bill alone cannot revitalize the South Bronx...
...sufficiently trained and equipped for combat and most are based in the U.S., the force would have to be quickly whipped into shape and airlifted to staging areas mear the combat zone. There it would "marry up" with equipment and supplies prepositioned on ships now cruising off Diego Garcia, a British-owned island in the Indian Ocean some 2,500 miles south of Hormuz. The U.S. has leased base rights on the island...
starring Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Annie Girardot and Lila Kedrova; written by Philippe de Broca and Alexandre Mnouchkine; directed by de Broca...
...Argentine involvement includes ammunition and ration boxes marked MADE IN ARGENTINA that have been found in La Paz. A Bolivian official who was detained at Miraflores reported that one of his interrogator-torturers referred to him as che, a common term of familiarity in Argentina. U.S. analysts believe that Garcia Meza would not have acted had it not been for assurances of Argentine financial support following the takeover. Said a senior U.S. State Department official: "Argentine fingerprints are all over this thing...
With or without Argentine backing, the Garcia Meza regime is on weak ground. Only eight countries, among them Israel, South Africa and Paraguay, recognize it. Tin miners continue a costly strike ($1.5 million a day in lost export earnings). Not even all the military approve of the coup: Garcia Meza's reshuffling of troop commanders is seen as a clear sign of suspect allegiance. Archbishop Jorge Manriquez Hurtado of La Paz and Bolivia's Council of Bishops have condemned the junta for creating a "climate of violence." On Aug. 6, Independence Day, the day he probably would have...