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Reagan Administration officials maintain, despite Nicaraguan denials, that Soviet arms in Nicaragua are, in turn, being handed on clandestinely by the Sandinista government to aid Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador and other neighboring countries. For that reason, Washington in January decided to suspend some $15 million in promised U.S. aid to Nicaragua. That was possibly an unwise decision, since it reinforced Sandinista charges that the Reagan Administration is merely out to ruin the country. In their recent statements, both Haig and Meese have ruled out unilateral U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua as an antidote to the flow of arms...
Allis-Chalmers to lay off 1,300 in Missouri . . . Smith-Corona to suspend output at three plants employing 3,450 . . . Pennzoil to shut down all its copper and molybdenum operations...
...guardian council," a twelve-member constitutional watchdog committee, which for religious reasons had blocked needed reform legislation. Still, his questionable action offended many right-wingers. Said one ayatullah: "It is bad enough that his understanding and application of the [mandate] are faulty and selfish. His decision to suspend Islamic law for political expediency is apostasy. If his so-called Islamic republic cannot survive the application of God's law, then there is something wrong with his system. God does not make defective laws...
POLITICAL ILLUSIONS--the blue smoke and mirrors that have accompanied Reaganomics, for instance--are maintained only by hope. It's the same sort of hope that benefits salesmen of snake oil and patent medicine; people ache so badly for relief that they suspend cynicism and mistrust...
...officials added, however, that they will "suspend immediately" anyone who violates a university regulation which prohibits the disruption of "the normal and ordered process of education and training...