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...morning, die in the afternoon." Even before election day dawned clear and stiflingly hot on March 28, the guerrillas launched scattered attacks in several of the capital's northern suburbs and a number of provincial towns. In the eastern city of Usulutan, nearly 500 insurgents made the sharpest assault of the day. Before retreating they managed to prevent local officials from opening the polls...
...inflationary pressures of Pentagon procurement are perhaps the most worrisome element of the big Reagan buildup. Inflation has been coming down sharply in recent months, and last week the Labor Department reported a drop of .1% in. producer prices during February, the sharpest decline in six years. Surging defense spending could undo much of that progress...
...provision in the original version announced last October requiring aid recipients with school-age children to find jobs drew the sharpest criticism from public interest lobbies and labor organizers...
...that's not how everyone sees it. For every Ely convert, there has been an ardent critic, and almost all of the latter are politically liberal. One of Ely's sharpest critics, law professor Richard Parker, argues that his colleague's focus on process alone--and not fundamental rights--"is grossly middle of the road and insensitive to class distinctions." Democracy and Distrust, Parker has written is just "an apology" for the upper-middle class polity that is America...
While the President succeeded in grabbing headlines, the drumfire of criticism did not abate. The United States Conference of Mayors warned that the 1983 budget would "seriously undermine the economic and social health of cities." The criticism from Governors was also widespread, but it was sharpest in the Northeast, where populous states already face severe budget problems. New Jersey's Republican Governor Thomas Kean, in office barely a month, charged that Reagan's budget "will have a severe human impact." Anticipating a $130 million state deficit even if there were no new Reagan slashes, Kean said New Jersey...