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...self-serving and short-sighted policy in Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua, the United States government should immediately recognize the government supported by the people of El Salvador. If the opposition is to overcome the repressive regime that rules the country by terror now, the United States should either halt its aid to Duarte or, for once, aid the popular forces. Only with the victory of El Salvador's leftist guerrillas will peace return to the embattled Central American country...
...however, for a majority of the Vietnamese boat people the horrendous saga of suffering had come to a halt. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, by the turn of the year more than 300,000 Vietnamese had been permanently settled in west. Though years 60,000 ago, a still remain in Southeast Asian camps, the resettlement record is impressive. The U.S. tops the list of countries that have accepted the Vietnamese boat people, with 185,000, followed by Canada, with 46,000, and Australia, with 38,000. France has taken in 9,000, in addition...
Nevertheless, the report is unlikely to halt debate over cholesterol. Critics of the diet-heart link point out that the body manufactures most of the cholesterol found in the blood. Thus even the most careful diet will have only a limited effect on cholesterol levels. The Chicago survey also failed to take into account changes in the intervening 20 years that could have affected the development of heart disease. Notes Peyton Davis of the National Live Stock and Meat Board: "Not only diet could change, but also the amount of alcohol a man consumes, the amount he smokes...
AMERICANS VIEW environmental questions as the dessert course of policy making-- something to deal with once the real problems are out of the way. Hence, when we are busy aiming for military superiority, busy trying to halt the spread of godless Communism through Latin America, busy worrying about four dozen stenographers in Tehran, we have no energy left over to worry about thyroid cancer and the chance of meltdown. Especially if addressing the problems of nuclear power would mean short-run worsening of "real problems" like inflation and dependence on foreign energy supplies. Especially if it would mean less electricity...
Otto Eckstein argued that reducing outlays by the $30 billion to $50 billion that Reagan's advisers are recommending for fiscal 1981 would require a complete halt to any growth in nondefense spending. Since 1947, those politically popular expenditures-which include Social Security, aid to education, and employment training-have increased at an average rate of 5.3% annually. Said Eckstein: "The question is, Can Reagan effectuate this revolution...