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...least 700 people have been killed-more than in all 1979. Last week was a particularly bloody one. It began with a call for a 24-hour general strike by leftists who hope to bring down the country's ruling junta. Troops and police battled guerrillas in a daylong orgy of violence in the capital, San Salvador, that left, by official count, 53 dead, with unofficial estimates running well over 100. The heaviest confrontation took place at the national university, where four leftist organizations have their headquarters. The soldiers did not invade the sprawling campus, which is off limits...
...troublemakers, 70% unable to cope with troublemakers and 20% not bothered by troublemakers. By paying particular attention to the manner and techniques of the resilient 20%, he has constructed a strategy for achieving office harmony and teaches it (for $1,000 a session) to employers and employees alike at daylong seminars throughout California...
...ordered the schools to remain open; otherwise, the cash-poor system would have been billed for unemployment compensation. But pleas by board of education officials for parent volunteers to help with staffing were mostly unheeded. The few students who went to school watched movies or gathered in lunchrooms for daylong study halls, supervised by administrators. C.T.U. President Robert Healey advised parents: "Make plans for the week. Have your child read a book...
...harsher restrictions of apartheid, South Africa's all-encompassing system of racial laws, and provide fresh economic opportunities by allowing corporations to employ the country's blacks in heretofore restricted jobs. Political power, of course, would be left firmly in white hands. At the end of his daylong summit with the business leaders, Botha seemed to have won them over. Declared Diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer, an influential critic of the Afrikaner regime: "I've got more hope for the future of South Africa than I've had for many, many years...
Moreover, Arafat hoped to demonstrate that the U.S. was in part responsible for the deaths of many Lebanese and Palestinian civilians killed in the Israeli counterattacks. Thus the P.L.O. guides who escorted the civil rights leaders on a daylong inspection of camps and towns near the Israeli border repeatedly stressed that the widespread devastation had been wrought with weapons "paid for with U.S. tax dollars." Seeing the American equipment, said the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, an S.C.L.C. official who is also the District of Columbia's nonvoting representative in Congress, was "shocking and disturbing. We just hope that...