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...them any means to continue their work simply because we disagree with their attitudes toward the registration Law. Those who fail to register will pay a price for their convictions. But they are still our students We may not agree with them in resisting the law nor wish to shield them from the consequences of their acts. But we surely have an interested in enabling them to finish the education for which they came to us in the first place in our opinion we an interested we will best reconcile our varying interests and responsibilities by following the course...
Meanwhile, behind the military shield, Salvadoran government technicians and U.S. Government officials are moving into the territory reclaimed in Operation Goodwill to repair the roads, power lines, bridges and schools destroyed in the F.M.L.N.'s economic sabotage campaign. Says a U.S. military expert: "You can't bring the guerrilla to bay with military means alone...
...reaction aptly illustrates Japan's emotional debate over defense. Since the end of World War II, the country has relied on the U.S. for protection in case of attack. Thanks to the American military shield, Japan has been able to keep its military budgets unusually low: this year, for example, the bill came to $12 billion, or .98% of the G.N.P. In comparison, West Germany is spending 2.6% of its G.N.P., Britain 5.1% and the U.S. 6.3%. As a result of the imbalance, Americans and West Europeans complain increasingly that Japan's world economic success rests at least...
...might soon quicken. In the first phase of a Viet Nam-like operation known as the National Plan that has long been advocated by U.S. advisers, the Salvadoran army began chasing guerrillas out of the strategically important San Vicente province and prepared to stay a while to create a shield for a government-sponsored effort to rebuild schools, roads and medical centers. In Honduras, 100 U.S. advisers arrived last week to train Salvadoran troops, against a backdrop of new clashes on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. "The Honduran question is getting some attention right now," said an Administration official, referring...
Does he have the capacity to see a great objective and go after it? What moves him most? What does he really care about? Asked these questions, he paused cautiously. Glenn seldom shows any emotion. One remembers that when the shield of his capsule heated up alarmingly as Glenn re-entered the atmosphere, his pulse rate rose by only one beat. He said he was deeply troubled about the country's eroding industrial base. He had witnessed the huge dislocation in his own cities of Youngstown and Akron and now in other shut-down plants around the country. "These...