Word: repeals
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...Guatemala, where the government is currently keeping a much smaller leftist insurrection in check; increased military aid of an unspecified amount to Honduras, Nicaragua's northern neighbor, where U.S. troops will soon be winding up joint exercises that are scheduled to be renewed in July; and a repeal of the existing ban on U.S. aid to foreign police forces. The ban was enacted to prevent the U.S. from underwriting human rights abuses by authoritarian regimes, but it has had the perverse effect of denying security assistance to democratic Costa Rica, which has no army and relies entirely...
...Armed Forces, which includes high-ranking officers from all three services, to pass "summary judgment" on the accused officers. Alfonsín announced that seven left-wing terrorists active during the '70s would be tried by civil courts. He also fulfilled one of his most emotional campaign pledges: repeal of the so-called amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing junta to absolve the armed forces of their murderous excesses. At week's end Alfonsín appointed a 16-member commission to investigate the charges against the generals and admirals...
Alfonsin must also deal subtly with the armed forces. He has already pledged to repeal a law passed by the junta last September that effectively pardoned the military for any role in the "dirty war" of the 1970s, in which an estimated 6,000 people disappeared. But a full inquiry would alienate the generals, who might later look for reasons to mount a coup...
...projected deficit for 1982 and 1983 of $767 million in part with the help of a temporary income tax surcharge enacted in March 1982. Buoyed further by larger-than-expected tax revenues, state officials have predicted a $650 million surplus by the end of fiscal 1985 and an early repeal of the surcharge. In Indiana, Republican Governor Robert Orr called the state legislature into special session last December to avert an estimated 1983 shortfall of $452 million. The result: a $1.8 billion tax hike, the largest in Indiana history, and painful delays in state payments for schools, universities and local...
...Ohio, Democratic Governor Richard Celeste helped beat back a projected 1983 deficit of $528 million by tacking an additional 90% onto the state's personal income tax. Despite the size of the hike, deficit-weary Ohioans soundly rejected a tax repeal referendum earlier this month. The state ended the fiscal year with a $43.6 million surplus and is now looking forward to a combined bonus of $80 million in fiscal...