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HOUSTON--President-elect George Bush promised yesterday to "never neglect our friends in this hemisphere" as he met incoming Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and heralded the election victory of Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as a triumph for free trade...
...urban schools the outcroppings of neglect and despair abound. When Chicago's Kathy Daniels asked her students to write an essay about something that made them angry, one boy described the time his brother was gunned down and died on the front steps of his house. Soon afterward, the boy himself was fatally shot. In poor rural areas, the deprivation can be even more elemental. "I've got kids that have never held a pencil before," says a Mississippi kindergarten teacher. "And last year I had one that had never held silverware." Trying to convey the majesty of Shakespeare...
...have declared it many times, but ((the Americans)) are not willing to listen. I have repeated that I have accepted 242 and 338 along with all United Nations resolutions. But there is an American policy to neglect the Palestinian people; self-determination is a sacred right for every people except the Palestinians. The self-determination that was one of the main items for the American Constitution. How can this be understood...
...distinction of having the worst air pollution problem in the country. This is not to say that other American cities are far behind. How Denver deals with its smog problem should therefore be of interest to other cities, since they too will soon find it impossible to continue to neglect their growing pollution problems...
...those missing may never be accounted for. Yet the issue remains politically and diplomatically alive for both sides. Reagan took office with an apparent belief that some MIAs might still be living; at the same time, the President was critical of previous Administrations for what he considered their neglect of the question. In 1981 the White House created a Washington-based task force of more than 100 investigators to probe reports of servicemen missing in Southeast Asia. For its part, Hanoi views the MIA issue as its strongest lever for establishing diplomatic relations with the U.S. and thereby gaining desperately...