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Behind the brave words lie harsh realities. Duarte's room for maneuver, especially on social reforms, will be constricted by the sorry state of the national economy. Some Salvadorans recall how the Christian Democrats acquiesced to rightist demands during their last turn in power, in 1980, while others remember how abrasively contentious Duarte can be. But not the least of Duarte's estimable qualities are his courage and optimism...
CLOSE TO 10 years after women first moved into Harvard dorms and began receiving Harvard diplomas, a series of events this year gave a harsh reminder that equal acceptance for women has not proceeded as completely as some had thought. Perhaps more than any other recent year, the 1983-84 academic term has witnessed several jarring manifestations of discriminatory treatment of or attitudes toward women on campus...
After years of quiet existence, a group of Black faculty and administrators became suddenly aggressive this year, focussing a harsh spotlight on Harvard's minority hiring record. And while the activists have taken care to stress the cooperative facets of their push for affirmative action, the stridency of their statements this year has betrayed a certain impatience with some of their official colleagues...
...countryside, is also a national curse. With the highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues in the country's civil...
...stressed that Latin America's $335 billion foreign debt, of which Mexico's $85 billion is second only to Brazil's $96 billion, poses a potentially worse problem for the U.S. than the turmoil in Central America. The reason: many countries are being forced to impose harsh austerity measures that create social unrest. The Mexican delegation specifically asked Reagan to ease import tariffs on such Mexican products as steel and leather goods. Administration officials were somewhat unsympathetic, arguing that Mexico's markets are far more protected than those of the U.S. Mexico, for example, sells some...