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...spite of Congressional initiatives, an increasingly vocal opposition movement in the United States and a hopeless and spiraling escalation of violence in El Salvador, the Reagan Administration continues to support a military solution to the Salvadoran conflict. The Administration recently cent $55 million in emergency military assistance to the Salvadoran junta and has initiated a program in which the U.S. Army is training 1600 Salvadoran soldiers and officers in the United States. Military and to El Salvador could rise to over $100 million next year, accompanied by an increase in the number of military advisors...
...spite of such cheery cooperation, many Vietnamese are beginning to question the competence of their biggest benefactor. In seven years the Soviets have yet to complete a major development project...
Saying that the "voters have cut off their noses to spite their faces," Middlesex Assistant District Attorney John Kerry said Prop 2 1/2 is a protest of the "grotesque failure" of previous administrations and fitting retaliation to "years of wastefulness...
During her career, she has enjoyed triumphs for which other sopranos would give their last high C-in spite of a well-deserved reputation for temperamental perfectionism that has given headaches to many a colleague and caused her to cancel a number of important engagements. Blessed with a large voice that easily spans three octaves, Stratas was selected to sing the title role in Alban Berg's thorny twelve-tone shocker Lulu, when the complete opera-with its suppressed third act orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha-was given its world premiere in Paris in 1979. The late conductor Karl...
...children of war death explodes like a car bomb. They simply may not have the time to seethe or develop their hatreds. For them the exercise of charity may be an automatic protection, an instantaneous striking back with the antipode of what strikes them-kindness for cruelty, generosity for spite. In short, their goodness may be a means of survival...