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...deficit of $500 million is equal to 22.5% of its budget, forcing the city to cut back on everything from sports programs to library hours. The school system is running on empty too, with a $400 million deficit. Teachers have endured a 10% pay cut already this year, and threaten to strike soon. Some parents in the mostly white San Fernando Valley want to break up the school district into smaller pieces so that they will be unburdened of the financial drain of schools in L.A.'s poor neighborhoods...
...former HDS Assistant Director for Administration Dale M. Hennessey said HDS managers do not threaten their workers...
...tensions increase, the perception of pro-life demonstrators grows into that of dangerous fanatics who threaten others' civil rights, making the rational discussion of abortion even harder, and motivating some to consider violating protesters' rights of free assembly...
...changes in the former Soviet Union are irreversible," he said. "For now, we can continue bringing down defense spending." So far, the public agrees. In a TIME/CNN poll, 53% of the adults in the survey said Clinton's proposal to reduce the size of the armed forces would not threaten national security...
...result, Saddam's power base remains solid. Postwar clashes with the armed and dangerous Kurds and Shi'ites alarmed the minority Sunnis, who provide the bulk of Saddam's military and civilian support. "When things threaten to fall apart," says Baghdad novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, "you stick with the man who can hold it together. Saddam was the one man who could make the center hold...