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...slowed down until joblessness rose too high. Then the Government would start fighting unemployment, until prices again got out of control. The main effect of this on-again, off-again policy over the long run has been both more inflation and more unemployment. Another switch in programs would unfortunately wipe out the recent progress made against inflation without providing any lasting relief against the terrible plague of unemployment. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Barbara B.Dolan/Detroid
...Neill has said he will try to persuade delegates to change their allegiances and also urge the delegates at the convention to wipe out the rule, which they can do by a majority vote...
When Lucas Garcia took office in 1978 political violence which had been widespread in Guatemala for several decades increased dramatically. Moderate politicians were murdered of forced into exile by rightist death squad and thousands of Indian peasants were killed in an effort by Lucas Garcia to wipe out the left's popular base of support. After harsh criticism by the Carter Administration. Guatemala renounced...
...behind the assault plan is Defense Minister Sharon, who is described as the "hawk among hawks" by a top U.S. official. Sharon is determined to wipe out the P.L.O. in Lebanon, reduce its influence in the occupied territories and thereby solve Israel's most serious security problem. In 1978 the Israelis invaded Lebanon with 10,000 men and 200 tanks, but failed to dislodge the P.L.O. This time they have 36,000 men massed in northern Israel...
...charge. That could be to our advantage. While fearing the volatility of the Falkland crisis, men like Henry Kissinger our a signal to the rest of the world from Britain that there is a "limit to our endurance of defeatism." The Pentagon assessment is that the British can wipe out the Argentine fleet. The diplomatic assessment is that we had better stop every thing before that happens or all parties lose, especially us. The nuclear protests may be in part irresponsible, but they also represent a healthy questioning of policy that has gone unexamined for too long a time...