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...Guatemala. Administration officials said last week Washington wants to revive military aid that came to a halt four years ago. Disgusted with human rights violations by the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia. President Carter had harshly criticized Guatemala, forcing it to renounce U.S. military assistance. President Reagan, in a gesture of "good will" toward the month-old regime of Efrain Rios Montt, who took power in a coup, will send Guatemala some $4 million in spare parts for the American-made helicopters it uses to fight leftist rebels No matter that Rios Montt has so far reneged...
...Harvard "A" and "B" sides last weekend at Brown (at the match, the Big Green underlined its enthusiasm by distributing pamphlets which described the Charles River Cup competition, the game of rugby and its own members but neglected to mention the busting opposition). Dartmouth scored quickly on two just halt penalty kicks and added a late-games breakaway...
...freeze initiative in California chose Ground Zero Week to file 750,000 petition signatures, more than twice the number necessary to put the proposal on November's ballot. The measure would require the Governor to call on the President and Congress to propose to the Soviets a mutual halt to all nuclear arms development. According to a new survey, if the election were held now, California voters would approve the freeze by a 2-to-l victory...
...Federal Reserve has, in general, been stingy with the money supply ever since October 1979, when it abruptly changed operating procedures in an effort to halt inflation. Before that watershed date, the Reserve Board had expanded the money supply fast enough to keep interest rates from rising rapidly. When that policy proved inflationary, it shifted to a strategy of slowing money growth and letting interest rates move more freely...
...passing Israeli cars and military patrols. As Israeli troops responded, at least 40 Palestinians were injured by rifle fire. In Nablus, Arab youths barricaded the road outside the Balata refugee camp with a wall of refrigerators. In the Judean Hills, the Haifa-Jerusalem train was brought to a halt by obstacles on the track, then stoned by Arab youths...