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...high-tech U.S. approach to the elections faces a substantial obstacle: Salvadoran reality. Whatever else the elections may achieve, they are unlikely to bring even a semblance of political harmony to the deeply divided country. As the end of the hard-fought, two-month presidential campaign drew near (see following story), the front runners in the race were José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democrats (P.D.C.) and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Republican Nationalist Alliance, known as ARENA. Trailing behind, according to the country's unreliable opinion polls...
...impasse was similar to the one given at the end of the INF talks: an expression of regret and an avowal that the U.S. was willing to continue negotiating. President Reagan stressed the positive by noting that the Soviet maneuver had come at the scheduled end of a normal two-month round of talks. Said Reagan: "This was a regular adjournment . . . I think this is more encouraging than a walkout and simply saying they won't be back." In Geneva, U.S. START Negotiator...
During his tour, Weinberger met with Salvadoran Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova, whose U.S.-trained troops had not seen much fighting lately. They soon did. At roughly the same time as Weinberger's visit, a force of between 500 to 600 leftist insurgents suddenly ended a two-month lull in the country's civil war by attacking the center of San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city. After killing at least 20 members of the local garrison and wounding more than 100 in a seven-hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached...
...steamed ahead 260 points, to 1036, the largest point gain in any two-month period ever. On Nov. 3 came the biggest one-day gain: 43.41, pushing the Dow to 1065.49. That broke the old record of 1051 set a decade earlier, in January 1973. A day later came the largest single day's trading volume: 149,350,000 shares, a load handled almost effortlessly by new computerized trading systems at the New York Stock Exchange and drastically modifying the definitions of what were "light," "moderate" and "heavy" trading days. From August through June, an average of 86 million...
...policy until the justices can rule on its constitutionality later this year. The ruling gave the Department of Education only three days to implement a policy due to go into effect July 1. The Department decided to plough ahead and enact the legislation as planned, granting first one-, then two-month extensions on the July deadline...