Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem: it causes high American interest rates, which pull up rates around the world. At the summit, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Reagan that "the real impediment to productive investment is high interest rates," and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau asked: "How long can we wait until inter est rates come down?" Reagan replied that he was trying to reduce rates by trim ming deficits and even claimed that a balanced U.S. budget is "in sight." When? Treasury Secretary Regan later answered wryly: "President Reagan is a man of long vision...
...Action for Reconciliation, a group with strong ties to the Lutheran Church. Said Spokesman Wolfgang Brinkel: "We cannot on one hand do nothing during [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's visit [last November] and then suddenly stage a demonstration during Reagan's visit." The Dutch-based Inter-Church Peace Council, a highly effective grass-roots organization that has served as a model for peace groups throughout the Continent, also will not take part in the rally. Said Spokesman Mient-Jan Faber: "We do find the demonstration meaningful...
...David cannot be only a separate peace between Egypt and Israel, postponing a response to the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people. Time is not on the side of peace in that area. Peace must be promoted without delay and with vigor along the line strongly supported in the Inter-Parliamentary Union [an association of parliamentarians from around the world]: reciprocal and simultaneous recognition between the state of Israel and Palestinian representatives. Anyone who objects to Palestinian representatives may one day find it impossible to have a dialogue with anyone, and may then regret the lost opportunity...
...emergency session to consider the Falklands crisis. Staring directly at Haig during a virulent, 45-minute speech, Costa Méndez charged that U.S. support for Britain was "illegal and repugnant" and that the U.S. had "turned its back" on Latin America. He warned: "The future of the inter-American relationship is under threat." As Haig sat in stony silence, most of the assembled delegates gave the Argentine diplomat a long standing ovation...
...Aubuisson the benefit of the doubt, but some members of Congress are not. Senator Paul Tsongas, a leading critic of U.S. policy in El Salvador, called the suspension of part of the land reforms a "breaking of faith." Said Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the House Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee: "These actions seem to confirm that the wrong guys...