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...conference focused on the economic plight of reservations, which are suffering from high unemployment and cuts in federal support...
Reagan obviously hoped to lend the political system some legitimacy by pushing elections scheduled for March 1984 forward to this year. But the plight of Silva and other opposition members makes it clear that the elections will have no legitimacy. Members of the opposition are labelled subversives and would be in great danger in public in the urban areas of El Salvador. Rebels cannot place themselves at the rightists' mercy by laying down their arms. Silva maintains that attempts at reform are useless unless they "put the two parts together." The rebels made an offer for neutrally mediated negotiation last...
That Begin and Sharon remain in positions of authority in spite of their complicity in the Beirut massacre shows that Israel believes belligerence, self-righteousness and indifference to the plight of non-Jews are the only paths to survival...
Mendelsohn explained that Jewish organizations are developing several projects which will focus on the plight of the refusniks. In one of the programs being considered, college campuses will "adopt" a college-age refusnik, admitting him or her to the college "in absentia" and establishing contact by writing letters and cards...
...pleas on behalf of "decent, hardworking Americans" who "suddenly find themselves thrown out of jobs they have held for 20 or 30 years." To help these "decent, hardworking Americans," Mondale has chosen to make Japan a scapegoat and take the jobs from the Japanese. A "liberal" concern for the plight of labor cannot justify plundering the Japanese economy--and thereby unemploying Japanese workers--to prop...