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Secretary of State George C. Shultz described the Sandinista administration last December as "a cancer in Central America that has got to be removed." To do this the Reagan Administration is seeking $100 million in military and economic aid to foot the bills of the Nicaraguan Contras as they wage war against the government. Military support, the administration claims, is the only alternative to the direct involvement of North American troops...
...course, poverty existed in Chile before the last decade, but the two-city split is new to this era of military rule. There is no mingling even in the marketplace, and the gap between the wage of the average unskilled worker and that of the typical white-collar professional is about 100 times what...
...December, 14 dissident officers planned to overthrow the government. Their plot was uncovered, but it underlined the fragility of Babangida's regime. As army Chief of Staff, his confident, wisecracking style won him the backing of the officers' corps. As President, however, he refused to exempt the army from wage cuts of up to 20% that he ordered for all workers. Said one Western diplomat: "Babangida is reaching outside the military, trying to create new political forces to sustain him. As long as Nigerians feel that the screws are tightening on everybody, they will feel better about it." Babangida...
...with the advent of the Reagan Administration, Congress passed legislation granting states more flexibility in administering WIN. For the first time, AFDC recipients could work in public agencies rather than in private-sector jobs. States were also allowed to use part of a recipient's welfare grant as a wage subsidy to his or her private employer. Given these new liberties, state governments began cooking up fresh workfare programs. "Obligation" is a word that workfare supporters use frequently, arguing that welfare recipients have not fulfilled their responsibilities as citizens. Lawrence Mead, professor of politics at New York University, makes such...
...price of such imports, including chemical and petroleum products, by maintaining an artificially high exchange rate for its currency. Duarte sought to blunt the immediate effects of devaluation by freezing prices on medicines and basic foods. He also increased salaries for government workers 17%, hiked the minimum daily wage for peasants and industrial workers from $1 to $1.60, and froze rents on low-income housing. But these measures are not likely to stave off labor unrest if the country's downward economic spiral continues...