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...three major agencies within the Department of the Treasury: the U.S. Savings Bonds Division, the Bureau of Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. She supervises more than 5,000 employees and manages a budget of some $280 million. Under her supervision, holdings of U.S. savings bonds have risen nearly 11%, to well over $73 billion. Ortega is a decisive, take-charge leader...
...military's effectiveness has risen, although much of the improvement began before Duarte took office. Under pressure from U.S. advisers, the army has stopped fighting the war on a 9-to-5 schedule, making forays into the countryside and returning to the barracks at sundown. Instead, commanders increasingly keep their patrols in the field for days on end. Salvadoran officers admit that not many guerrillas have been captured or killed in recent months, but they say that by keeping the country's troops on the move they are keeping rebels scattered. The army is also trying harder...
...break in borrowing costs would aid such industries as housing and autos. It might also help lower the lofty value of the dollar, which has risen to record levels because high U.S. interest rates have spurred foreigners to convert their money into dollars for investment in the U.S. A cheaper dollar, in turn, would help narrow the burgeoning U.S. trade deficit by making America's exports less costly and its imports more expensive. Figures released last week showed that the trade gap hit a record $14.1 billion in July and $74 billion for the year...
...fate of one such ghetto has become an emblem of resistance: the Warsaw inmates, pitifully outnumbered by SS troops, battled with pistols, rocks and knives against tanks and cannons. In May 1943, along with the buildings that held them, the fighters were reduced to ashes. Monuments have risen to commemorate the uprising, and periodically a dwindling number of survivors meet to recall the martyrs and make the celebrated vow "Never again." But another ghetto existed about 75 miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz...
Congress last year appropriated $64.8 million for new military family housing in West Germany, the first such allocation since World War II. The housing-maintenance budget available for military families has also risen, from $300 million in 1980 to $550 million this year. As a result, the number of military families living in substandard dwellings has been cut by more than half, to about...