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...their pocketbooks, and the latest upswing in the economic cycle has coincided with Reagan's re-election campaign. Unemployment (7.4%) is down from double digits to roughly where it was when Reagan took office, and inflation (5.6%) has not been so low in a decade. When Reagan was sworn in, it was 13.5%. More important, most voters feel that times are good-and getting better...
When the two Iranian F-4 fighter planes flew over Saudi Arabian territorial waters last week, they seemed to set the stage for yet another attack on a tanker doing business with Iran's sworn enemy, Iraq. But this time the story was different: the planes were intercepted by two Saudi F-15 fighters firing air-to-air missiles. One, and possibly both, of the Iranian planes was shot down. A short time later, Iran sent eleven more F-4s into the skies over the Persian Gulf. Again, the Saudis intercepted them. After a brief standoff, the Iranian planes...
...Napoleón Duarte, it was a moment to savor. Robbed of what looked like certain victory in 1972, then beaten by Salvadoran soldiers and exiled to Venezuela for seven years, Duarte realized a long-cherished dream when he was sworn in as his country's first freely elected President in half a century. For El Salvador, the day proffered the sweet promise that after nearly five years of civil war and a dozen years of political turbulence, the country might begin to heal. For the Reagan Administration, the inauguration symbolized its most successful accomplishment in the region, what...
...decision, which also applies to minorities, could affect the procedures not just of legal but also of architectural, engineering, accounting and other professional firms that are organized as partnerships. Carol Dinkins, who was sworn in the day after the ruling as Deputy Attorney General, the highest Justice Department rank ever held by a woman, called the action "gratifying"; the department had in fact supported Hishon before the Supreme Court. But, warns Harriette Dorsen, a partner in a New York City firm: "I'm not sure what practical progress will be made. Partnerships can be awarded in ways so that...
...operations of the intelligence services, but the government's usual, and accepted, answer is a blank "secret de la défense. The West German Bundestag does have a watchdog committee for that nation's equivalent of the CIA. But the committee's eight members are sworn to deepest secrecy The Bundestag has declared members of the antinuclear Green Party ineligible to serve on the committee because they would not take the pledge...