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While the Reagan Administration is currently giving El Salvador $104 million in economic aid, it is also contributing $80 million to the armed forces. In October 1980, Washington sent the first of 51 noncombatant military advisers to El Salvador to sharpen the army's counterinsurgency skills. Last January, the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror, Right and Left | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

THE TWO OUTCASTS, who have adopted diameterically opposed attitudes, represent typical human reactions to the state of superfluity. Zoditch refuses to recognize his insignificance; he believes all women love him and despises their feminine weakness, which runs counter to his own assumed logic and coolheadedness. This supposed predilection merely masks...

Author: By Deborah K. Holines, | Title: A Tale of Two Outcasts | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

The cast of Wanda June cannot be blamed for its weakness. Inspired acting saves the play from utter despair as the actors attempt to adapt the material But the acting ultimately only frustrates the audience, which wants to see more of their wares and less of their struggling to convey...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Heroes for Zeroes | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

The Semitic Museum has had a history of financial difficulties since its founding in 903 and currently has no endowment, Frank Moore Cross, director of the museum, said yesterday, adding the longstanding weakness in the Near Eastern Language and Civilization department helped explain the fiscal problems

Author: By Lavka Bractiman, | Title: University's Semitic Museum To Re-Open After 40 Years | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

The American response to this historical phenomenon is usually expressed in the conviction that a government under siege can best maintain itself by accelerating democratic reform and by expanding its base of support by sharing power. But the fundamental cause of a civil war (of which guerrilla war is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RANDOM REFLECTIONS | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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