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...Haig's view, accommodation with the Marxist, pro-Cuban Sandinistas was foolish because Nicaragua was already "lost." Meanwhile, the government of El Salvador, which has committed itself to land reform and fair elections, stands threatened by subversion; El Salvador's conquest by leftist rebels would have a falling-domino effect on the fragile democratic government in neighboring Honduras as well as the insurgency-threatened rightist regime in Guatemala. Haig's ultimate fear is that the entire region, from Mexico to Panama, might fall into the Soviet orbit, which would not only threaten America's vital security...
...cuts will increase the size of the school, as administrators are forced to increase the load for each individual teacher. "Soon we would reach a point of diminishing returns. Research shows that we are now at our optimal size, "he explains, adding that an increase in population "would also threaten the race and sex balance which Pilot has been committed...
...devilish dilemma is whether to switch policy, and by how much. Most economists believe that the Government should immediately attack the towering deficits that threaten to keep interest rates high. Two possible strategies: scaling back the enormous increase in defense spending now planned or delaying, reducing or even canceling the further 10% cut in income tax rates scheduled for July 1983. On Capitol Hill, Congressmen are advancing various plans to reduce spending-even including the previously unthinkable step of freezing cost of living increases due next year in Social Security benefits-and to raise more tax revenues...
...Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. Seventeen seats had to be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven fast-growing states in the West and the South. Moreover, population shifts within the states themselves-largely from Democratic cities to Republican suburbs-promised to threaten dozens of Democratic strongholds...
Martens fears that the Community decision could revive the smoldering cause of linguistic separatism because the ailing steel industry is concentrated in French-speaking Wallonia. Says he: "All the tensions surrounding the regional balance in the country have been provoked again." That, in turn, could threaten the :ntire recovery program. Martens' four previous governments collapsed over linguistic or economic disputes...