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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Despite this tragic incident, we have no reason to believe that El Salvador's progress in this area is threatened," spokesman Charles Redman said...
...their functions and duties. In still other areas policy changes have resulted in the suppression of information transactions among scholars and researchers to which the government attaches security importance. These policy developments are likely to have a restaining effect in varying degrees on academic inquiry, scientific and technological progress, economic activity, and democratic decisionmaking. To the extent that such restraints are now being felt, policy adjustments should be made by the congress and the executive branch before more serious damage is done...
...many restrictions will lead to a stagnation of basic science" with dire effects for the economy and national security, the report says. The report argues that the controls stifle the academic innovation and discovery which lie behind technological progress. And if our technological progress does not keep pace with our international competitors, our prosperity and safety will suffer, the report says...
...that we don't lapse in our effort." No one, least of all Arias, believes eternal peace will reign three weeks from now; the Costa Rican President points out that the cease-fire "initiates a process, it doesn't end it." Yet most Central Americans agree that more progress has been made toward peace in the past two months than in the past six years and that Arias deserves the chance to play out his plan. Ronald Reagan may not want to encourage Arias, but obviously a few Norwegians...
...Chatterbox, where we stopped in for the usual (mushroom soup and a cheese sandwich), we found a lively moral-literary debate in progress. There was a school of thought, led by Carl Krebsbach, holding it was wrong the way you "build things up." It was perfectly true he had to miss the homecoming parade the time his daughter Carla was elected queen because he was digging up his parents' old septic tank and transporting it to the town dump. But, he said, it was just a . . . well, prevarication to say that hauling his load of "thirty years of family history...