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...truck convoys dropped Soviet soldiers off at the main intersections. Roadblocks were set up every hundred yards or so, and citizens were stopped, searched and asked for their identification cards. Meanwhile, squads of soldiers went house to house, looking for high school graduates to fill the ranks of the unpopular and demoralized Afghan army. When the soldiers found a potential recruit, they would take him away at gunpoint. Says an Afghan exile living in New Delhi: "It is not what you would call winning the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan...
...since become thought of as a fine actress. Her book on physical exercise is a bestseller, and she has a chain of body-fitness shops. She hasn't changed all that much; opinion has. In most American families, she is now regarded as the niece with strident and unpopular opinions that are accepted as part...
Several of the economists, including Heller and Eckstein, argued that the simplest and surest way to spur recovery would be to move up the 10% tax cut from July 1 to Jan. 1. President Reagan supported such a strategy briefly but then abandoned it because it was unpopular in Congress. The main drawback to accelerating the tax cut is that it would swell the already bloated federal budget deficit. The financial markets are gravely concerned that the flow of red ink will cause inflation to speed up again, and this anxiety, more than anything else, has been responsible for keeping...
...coalition does indeed suffer from a public relations problem: many of its contras (counterrevolutionaries) served in the unpopular National Guard under Somoza, who was overthrown by the Sandinistas in 1979. The extent of U.S. involvement with the F.D.N. remains unclear, but the CIA is known to be arming and training the contras so they can stage raids into Nicaragua from bases in neighboring Honduras. These connections, in fact, have cost the F.D.N. the potential support of other exile leaders, most notably Edén Pastora Gómez, a former Sandinista leader who now lives in Costa Rica...
This view reflects a narrow conception of what is important to students. As people who have lived all our lives under the threat of nuclear annihilation, and as residents of a nation which spends a great deal of money and effort to prop up unpopular and democratic regimes around the world, we can hardly avoid being concerned with these issues. The claim that these issues are too complex for local or state referenda, or even for the average citizen to deal with at all, is simply a device to prevent Americans from using the most effective democratic institution available...