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Each day brings a fresh batch of horror stories about the death squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged...
EVERY four years a new batch of campaign promises to cut government spending and rid the land of federal bureaucratic red tape, mismanagement, and fraud bubble up and cover the nation in a sea of righteous froth, often just hot, soapy air but occasionally bringing forth such tangible changes as the current Proposition...
...first batch of nominees deserve special recognition for past achievement--Caspar W. Weinberger '38 seems sure to bring with him from Bechtel Corporation a happy view of the close harmony in which government and industry must work. And then there's William J. Casey, who earned the top job at the Central Intelligence Agency with his deft handling of the Republican's presidential campaign. Or William F. Smith, Reagan's personal attorney, who will run the Justice Department--Reagan, it seems, has forgotten the problems one of his Republican predecessors experienced when he put his closest political cronies in charge...
Last year was a disaster. The hoopsters' record of 12-14 overall (4-6 in the Ivies) tells a story of sporadic flashes of individual brilliance continually undermined by inconsistency. It's an old, well-known song. The hoopsters had the talent; especially in a new batch of freshmen pointguards who could shoot liketop-paid hitmen, effectively catalyse an offense, and who weren't afraid to intimidate the opposition...
During his campaign stop in slump-plagued Youngstown, Ohio, last week, Jimmy Carter pointed to a batch of upbeat statistics and happily assured a group of steelworkers that the battered U.S. economy is "recovering very well." But only four days later, and with little more than a week remaining in Campaign '80, the Government itself reported a shocker that was sure to keep the President's economic stewardship a prime concern of voters on Nov. 4-and push inflation squarely onto center stage again as the nation's No. 1 problem...