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...Problem: the danger of another recession. Cause: the fear of a rise in interest rates, also a symptom of Big Government spending. Solution: supply- side economics, which means lower spending, lower taxes and an exuberant private sector that creates general prosperity...
...federal money for job programs dries up, local officials will be asking corporations to carry more of the burden. Says Jesse Rhone, an office manager for the Texas employment commission: "Until the private sector assumes greater responsibility to employ these youths, the problem is not going to go away." Chicago Mayor Harold Washington will soon appear in local TV and radio ads in which he implores businessmen to "hire the future." In New York City, Metropolitan Life Insurance has taken charge of a proj-ect in which companies will employ 30,000 youths this summer in exchange for federal income...
There are some differences between Nicaragua and Cuba, to be sure. Nicaragua (pop. 3 million) is smaller than Cuba (pop. 10 million) and has fewer resources and is a less developed economy. Unlike Cuba, Nicaragua still has a large private sector (at least 60% of its economy), which is likely to be severely hurt by the U.S. embargo. That is one reason, warns Mesa-Lago, why sanctions may serve to rally some Nicaraguans around the very government that Washington finds so repugnant...
...Mount Baruk and along the once fortified slopes of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley were to mount their tanks and armored personnel carriers and head south. There came a shout: "To the trucks!" A whoop rose from the troops, and with that the Israeli army began withdrawing from the southeast sector of Lebanon, where 8,000 Israeli soldiers had faced 30,000 Syrians since the 1982 Israeli invasion...
...observers of the aftermath of the struggle reported that none of the dead were wearing the masks. Nor did they show signs of having been exposed to toxic agents. While denying that chemical weapons were brought to bear against the invaders, however, Major General Sultan Hashem Ahmed, an Iraqi sector commander, said, "If we had gas, we would have used...