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...reform move last December, when it passed a bill that raised members' salaries from $60,662 to $69,800, but imposed a 30% limit on honorariums. The Senate also considered the matter but decided to maintain the status quo: no raise, no fee restrictions. Senators generally can command higher honorariums than House members. Last year Kansas Republican Robert Dole made $135,750 (of which he donated $51,500 to charity); South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, $92,270 (none to charity); and New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, $84,450 ($27,000 to charity...
...Falkland's. The Falklands have a strategic importance. How often have I tried to tell our friends and allies this. The Falklands have been important in British history since 1770, when we were forced off. The battle of the Falklands in the first World War was for the command of those straits; if we had not won that, we would not have won the war. It is British sovereign territory. The Falklanders wish to be British subjects. I simply do not understand what is wrong with that. I would have thought it was of immense help to our American...
...Spanish, or in, the specific subjects they teach. In a 1976 test of 136 teachers and aides in bilingual programs in New Mexico, only 13 could read and write Spanish at third-grade level. Says former Boston School Superintendent Robert Wood: "Many bilingual teachers do not have a command of English, and after three years of instruction under them, children also emerge without a command of English." Another complicating factor is the inability of researchers to determine whether the problems of Hispanic students stem more from language difficulty or from their economic class. Many Hispanic children who are unable...
...Nicaragua's native Miskito Indian population. On the subject of exporting revolution, the White Paper charges that some 200 tons of weapons were shipped to Salvadoran guerrillas between late 1979 and early 1981. According to the White Paper, the flow continues, and the report specifically names the Nicaragua command center as the site from which Salvadoran guerrilla attacks and arms deliveries are coordinated. Sums up the report: "This level of outside support adds up to far more than merely marginal assistance for essentially indigenous guerrilla activity. It is large-scale intervention in the political affairs of the nations directly...
...squelch any support from their territory for the Salvadoran guerrillas if the U.S. would only provide hard information about the location of the aid-an offer repeated in Ortega's interview with TIME. For nearly a year, the U.S. has pointed to the existence of a Salvadoran guerrilla command center in the suburban outskirts of the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. The Sandinistas have just as pointedly ignored the U.S. information. Nonetheless, officials in Washington have expressed interest in the latest Nicaraguan offer of cooperation. They would hardly believe in Nicaraguan sincerity, however, if the Managua command station...