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...unified government in January 1970. This quadrupled the city's land area to 379 sq. mi. and boosted the tax base from fewer than half a million to three-quarters of a million residents. Most significantly, the law encouraged more direct cooperation between the government and the private sector...
...trying to fit together different parts of a life--job, family, political and social convictions. Owens says that the "trade-offs now are okay...I don't feel I've sold out--I'm trying to figure out how much I can live out those convictions in the private sector." What Owens calls trade-offs, others may term "compromises...
Duarte also faces problems within one of his own political bastions, organized labor. In the past three years, Salvadoran prices have risen 98%; the government has allowed wage increases of only 20% for private sector workers and 10% for the public sector. Prior to the March 25 election round, bank and water works employees in San Salvador struck to protest the wage situation. In that climate of frustration there is danger that the guerrillas will achieve their goal of winning substantial support within the labor movement...
While schools have had little problem finding appropriate hardware, they have run into difficulty unearthing low-cost, quality software. To help alleviate this situation, I have introduced a bill to establish a National Educational Software Competition, which would get the computer industry and the educational sector ,to work together toward producing software for all teaching levels...
...uneasy calm has allowed battle-weary residents to schedule a peace march, the city's first in recent memory, this weekend. Organizers hope to be able to assemble thousands of people on both sides of the "green line," which separates predominantly Muslim West Beirut from the Christian eastern sector. The demonstration may make good drama, but it will be up to Karami and his Syrian sponsors to make good the peace...