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...core of each man's being, but he is only fitfully successful. Information is not insight. Meyers probes the past lives of Taylor and Harold, but not their hearts and souls or the roots of their perplexing friendship. Taylor is a hard-nosed district attorney with a rightist bias who revels in his animal prowess with girls in singles bars. Harold is a do-good veteran of the '60s scene with its liberal pantomimes and drug dabbling. He sought God in a physics equation and found solace in a loving wife and child. His poetic affirmation of that...
...spite of these and hundreds of other incidents that can be attributed directly to the Salvadorean government the State Department continues to report that "Whether the Government beats full responsibility for the crimes of certain rightist elements is difficult to establish. To many observers, it is even more difficult to establish that El Salvador has made any substantial human rights progress in 1982. However, the president has duly certified that the government of Roberto d'Aubuisson is fully eligible to receive approximately $125 million in direct military aid in fiscal year...
Falldin did not have to deal with the extravagant military budget required by Reagan's friends in the military-industrial complex and rightist religious sects. His fiscal albatross was the heavy burden on the government's social programs, increased by the gradual failure of large Swedish industries such as shipbuilding, steel and iron one mining. The LO, the Swedish equivalent of the APL-CIO, complained fiercely even at the unemployment rise from 2 to 4 percent. The coalition tried to hold the brakes on social spending, but government service still grew to 65 percent of the GNP. At the same...
...taste of, and even Reagan has been forced to compromise, sparing Social Security, signing the new $5 billion jobs bill, and even raising some taxes. But the pressure for new taxes will continue as the projected deficit becomes a really and the patience of some of Reagan's Rightist supporters has already been stretched thin. Reagan's political strength comes from his clear separation from the policies of the Democrats: like Falldin, he cannot abandon the image he built in his campaigns and expect his support to remain intact...
...difficult, even impossible, to discuss the situation in EI Salvador without expressing some sort of political viewpoint. Didion makes her own position clear, sometimes explicitly, but usually implicitly. Her unflattering portraits of rightist leaders like Robertod' Aubisson, and her constant comparisons of the Salvadoran reality she perceives with the White House's roster view demonstrate her opposition to current U.S. policy. And she mocks the notion that true progress has been made on the human rights front Indeed, she finds a language common to Washington and the Salvadoran Right that has replaced the word "change" with the word "symbol...