Word: zeroed
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...overall Administration policy concerning tribal reservations. While urging tribes to become economically self-sufficient. President Reagan has cut back or eliminated federal programs essential to economic development on reservations. The Economic Development Administration, a major source of funding for tribal development, was sustained only after Congress overrode Reagan's zero-funding for the agency. In addition, tribes have been particularly hurt by federal cuts in social programs, since they receive no state or local aid. Conservative estimates place current unemployment on reservations at about 40 percent: the figure may be high as 80 percent Clearly, the development projects begun...
...voter for the Greens, I can say that this movement does not have much to do with romanticism or nationalism. The Greens reject capitalism and the style of living that accompanies it. The West Germans have to change their political attitudes drastically to prevent a "ground zero" on German soil...
...Even as negotiations are under way in Geneva to limit intermediate-range nuclear missiles, which Reagan has suggested eliminating entirely as part of his zero-option proposal, the Soviets have continued to build up their arsenal of intermediate-range SS-20s. Since 1981 the number of SS-20 launchers has risen from 250 to 351. "More than two-thirds are presently located within range of NATO," the Pentagon report states...
...Western Europe if necessary, the Chancellor also knows that, according to polls taken during the campaign, nearly 60% of his citizens oppose the new weapons. Kohl has obliquely suggested that he hopes for a softening of the current U.S. bargaining position in the Geneva arms talks away from the "zero option," the offer to cancel the NATO deployment if the Soviets dismantle some 340 SS-20 missiles already in place and mostly targeted on Western Europe. Having won his electoral war, West Germany's newly endorsed Chancellor is just as keen on governing in domestic peace...
...previous films featuring anti-nuclear activist Caldicott, presenting an emotional plea to end the suicidal arms race. Comparable films, such as "Seven Minutes to Midnight," have been shown to Justice officials numerous times before. But perhaps this time they were offended by the inclusion of a clip from "Jap Zero," a film in which Reagan, as a combat flyer, asks, "How soon do I get a chance to knock one of them down...