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...requesting assistance for his war-ravaged nation. Though many of the mayors contacted by Duarte expressed sympathy, most had responses similar to that of Portland's Mayor J.E. Bud Clark. Said a spokesman: "We understand that other people have problems. But Portland, like every other city, is having to swallow hard and really look at its own finances to see how we can best serve our own people." Duarte's request is a slight embarrassment for the State Department, since El Salvador is already receiving a sizable chunk of American aid. Indeed, in fiscal 1986 the U.S. has plans...
...gizmos can teach your kid to talk, count, spell, add and read as well as to dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...
...ceremony was muted, a mixture of joy, relief and sadness. "I'll wait for a second until I swallow the lump in my throat," Reagan told the ex-hostages and 400 onlookers. "This isn't a time for speeches; it is a time for reunions and families coming together. There's only one thing to say, and I say it from the bottom of my heart in the name of all the people of our country: Welcome home...
...reform may just be too large a beast for the congressional snake to swallow. As it is, Congress has a full calendar. There is always next year, of course. But by then every member of the House and a third of the Senators will be preoccupied with really urgent business: getting re-elected...
...argument for working within the system, though superficially attractive and easy to swallow, is morally vacuous and ultimately disingenuous when viewed against the backdrop of decades of stagnation and movement away from real record in South Africa. A policy like constructive engagement that claims to be working for reform while the system becomes more oppresive, more violent, more abominable, is a policy that has been coopted...