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...package insures that each of the 351 cities and towns receive at least 49 percent of the net losses incurred in the first two years of Proposition 2 1/2. It also reduces the amount of and going to the 16 "relatively wealthy" towns and guarantees the state's 45 poorest communities do not receive less than last year...
Honduras. Although it is Central America's poorest country, and is threatened by the possible spillover of neighboring upheaval, Honduras has good cause to rejoice: last December its voters made Roberto Suazo Córdova their first freely elected civilian President since 1971. The election was the result of two years of U.S. pressure on the corruption-riddled regime of General Policarpo Paz García. Though still in its fragile infancy, Honduran democracy can serve the region as a salutary model of popular government, and an example of the positive leverage that Washington can wield under the right conditions...
Then reflection sets in, and it doesn't let up for days. In the end, you accept the incident as an unfortunate price you have to pay for freedom of movement, as a fact of life for those who choose to live in the richest yet poorest, busiest yet seamiest city in the nation. You do wonder for a while whether it's worth it. But in the end, you don't necessarily change your political mindset or your assumptions about why men commit crimes and what can be done about...
...world safe for democracy. But it is true that America, the modern nation on earth, a nation in which wealth is more equally distributed, probably, than in any country except China, may provide a unique inspiration for the rest of the world, by cooperating to give the poorest people of the world a new ideal and thereby redefining its own much-emulated modernity. The new America will be electrified and mobilized by the tragedy which is not so much that of the individual as it is that of global neighborly, mortal man, who can marshall energies of a magnitude hardly...
...Thomas P. O'Neill III, the third candidate, running well behind Dukakis and King, has not run a radio or television advertisement since last October. With the lowest budget and the poorest showing in the caucuses, he seems more worried about establishing an organization than trying to grab wide spread support...