Word: planning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-term help, corporate America and organized labor are increasingly looking to a third party: the Federal Government. Several business and labor leaders are pushing for some type of national health plan in which everyone would automatically be insured. While a big-picture solution is still hazy, the problem is now in sharp focus: a debilitating financial drain on American workers, companies and the U.S. economy as a whole...
...enforced, the demobilization scheme will complete the gradual mutation of the contras from a military threat to a political force to a refugee remnant that U.S. officials have dubbed the "disposal problem." The Tela plan invites contras and their families to return to Nicaragua from their bases in Honduras but offers the option of resettlement in other countries. Honduras desperately wants the contras to go elsewhere, and Nicaragua has offered to repatriate them safely. But if the contras do not trust such Sandinista promises, the U.S. will face the painful question of its responsibilities toward the rebel force it created...
Much to the dismay of the contras, the demobilization plan enjoys the support of Nicaragua's 20 opposition parties. To ensure their cooperation, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra pledged to suspend Nicaragua's military draft until after the election, to hold fair balloting and to grant opposition candidates free television time. But the U.S. remains skeptical that the election will really prove free or fair, and last week's agreement provides no penalties whatsoever should Ortega renege on his pledges...
Despite the Tela plan's promise, few observers are ready to pronounce the contras dead. Such pronouncements have been issued before. And the rebels made it plain last week that unless the Sandinistas agreed to negotiate with them as equal partners, they had no intention of disarming. If the contras fail to lay down their rifles voluntarily, no one is offering to take the weapons by force...
This so-called quadrant plan has enraged nonwhite opponents, who contend that at-large voting is stacked against minorities because of the higher costs of mounting campaigns. Charges black Councilman Al Lipscomb: "It's a scheme to preserve Anglo business and political power." He and others contend that Strauss, who was twice elected with heavy black and Hispanic support, sold out to the Anglo establishment and then conspired to keep a minority proposal for all single-member districts off the ballot...