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Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine Before the interview began, he whisked away the machine guns that were lying on the table in his party's headquarters in San Salvador. Roberto d'Aubuisson, the candidate of the far right, is determined these days to soften his image as a gunman. He rose in Salvadoran society by attending his country's military academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army...
...with those elements and help them prevail. > In Nicaragua the Sandinistas are unquestionably oriented toward Cuba and the Soviet bloc in foreign policy and are heading toward one-party, totalitarian rule at home. But the U.S. can still work to modify that government's behavior. The Administration should immediately soften its tone, thereby giving the Sandinistas fewer pretexts to justify their militancy and repression. In addition, the U.S. should work with Western nations to aid the non-Sandinista parties and the private sector. The Sandinistas' biggest worry is that they will be shunned by the Socialist International, an association...
...course (she said), calling on her own without her boss's knowledge. (The odds were that he was standing beside her, prompting her while she talked.) It was vintage Nixon: the fear of confrontation; the indirect approach; the acute insight into my reaction; and the attempt to soften it through a preposterous charade that would get him over the first hurdle...
Samuel Rotondi added that politicians across the state should accept the general mandate of Prop 2 1/2 but soften its content. The current wording of the law prevents municipal and city governments from honoring their debts become citizens are reluctant to purchase bonds, he added...
...Congress to continue the attack on federal tuition support begun last year by tightening eligibility regulations and eliminating altogether federally guaranteed loans for graduate and professional students. The graduate loan cuts alone would affect 650,000 people nation-wide and about 5100 at the University. Chances are Congress will soften the blow somewhat this spring, as it modified Reagan's education reductions for 1982. But as tuition costs rise, anything even approaching the Administration's proposal could force hundreds of thousands of aspiring historians, physicians, lawyers and engineers to abort their plans for the future...