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...still run well ahead of revenues, largely because governments are constantly under pressure from farm lobbies not to cut back. Because Britain's agricultural system is so limited, the country was receiving fewer subsidies than other member states. As a result, Britain, one of the Community's poorest members in terms of per capita income, was contributing more to the $21.3 billion budget than any other nation except West Germany. Each member's contribution is based mainly on the country's receipts from the value-added tax, a type of sales tax. Thatcher argued that Britain...
...tightening, though necessary in narrow economic terms, would lead to hunger, widespread poverty and dangerous political instability. He could cite some disturbing precedents. Jamaica's last two elections, in 1980 and 1983, were precipitated by IMF-imposed austerity. Haiti's long-suffering populace, the hemisphere's poorest, erupted in riots last month after years of hardship under fund programs...
...Mexicans have only grudgingly accepted the refugees into Chiapas, one of the country's poorest regions. The government has allowed them to stay because mass deportations would harm Mexico's reputation as a haven for exiles...
...public relations, a lack of consciousness among non-minorities about the yawning gap between the races. It is to this end that would-be reformers must devote their time. Ray Flynn knows such problems exist. But he suffers from limited resources, and must deal with one of the poorest major cities in the country. Whites are not well off either, and Flynn has wirely couched his rhetoric in communal rather than divisive terms. He must step up efforts to bring black leaders like Mel King and City Councilor Bruce C. Bolling into the spotlight. King, who won about 20 percent...
...education has named Nathan Quinones, 53, executive director of the city's high schools, as acting chancellor. Quinones, a conservative educator, has already announced that he will re-evaluate Alvarado's plans; many teachers fear that imaginative programs to improve education in the city's poorest areas will be dismantled. Says Luther Seabrook, superintendent of Harlem's District 5: "There's a personal tragedy with Tony-but dammit, it's a greater tragedy for the rest of us in the system...