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...ground. Still, the reforms have been criticized both by the right, which called them "Communist-inspired," and by the left, which said they were merely "cosmetic." Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the regime, fears that the junta will use the reforms as an excuse to crack down even more ruthlessly on leftist sympathizers among the peasants. The junta, meanwhile, anticipating violence, announced a "state of siege," suspending constitutional rights, and deployed troops around banks and the largest farms scheduled for expropriation...
...fact, settlers from Qiryat Arba regularly intimidate Arab residents of Hebron, secure in the knowledge that the government will not crack down on them. Scarcely a week passes without some incident of vandalism or vigilantism. Grape vines of Arab villagers are cut. The tires of Arab-owned vehicles are slashed and windows smashed. Gun-wielding Israelis invade the houses of Hebron residents, threatening and terrorizing them. At the Haram al-Khalil Mosque, built on the site where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are believed to have been buried, Jews disrupt the prayers of devout Muslims...
...senior year, but then found myself involved in something I enjoyed more and kept putting off Dental School until I had firmly established myself in business," Spitz said recently from his Century City, Calif., office. "I am sure now that the decision to go back four years later and crack the books again stemmed from reading too much about how I was expected to become Mark Spitz, D.D.S...
...most detailed and comprehensive work ever done on a major segment of the Chinese economy has opened a crack in that wall. The Bank of America's Hong Kong subsidiary has amassed a two-volume, 450-page report (price: $5,000) on the petrochemical industry that provides the first definitive view of a contemporary Chinese industry. Mandarin-speaking and Harvard-trained Anthropologist Robert Silin, 39, compiled the report, making three trips to China...
Defending himself at a press conference after his firing, Sears described the Reagan campaign as an organizational nightmare. He contended that the Californians kept going behind his back to Reagan, who was "a very kind human being" and did not crack down the way he should have. People were hired and money was spent without Sears' approval, he said. He charged that Nofziger and Mike Deaver, whom Sears had also removed, lavished $2 million on an unproductive direct mail appeal, two questionable fund raisers and an announcement dinner. But the winners of the power struggle replied that Sears squandered...