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Foreign Affairs. She is a strong supporter of Israel's role in the Middle East, opposing the transfer of AWACS planes and Stinger anti-aircraft weapons to Saudi Arabia. She was against the deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. She sharply opposes the CIA-guided operations of contra forces against the government of Nicaragua. She voted against the Administration's request for $62 million in emergency military aid to El Salvador and supported strong requirements that any military aid to that government be tied to improvements in human rights conditions. She urges greater efforts by the Administration...
...million, and the number of employees in the U.S. assigned to the export business has fallen from 31,000 to 16,000. During 1984's first three months, it lost an additional $109 million. To stem its losses, the company has been forced to cut employment and transfer manufacturing operations overseas...
...remain competitive, Caterpillar has been drastically reducing overhead. It plans to close five of its 22 U.S. plants, plus one in Britain, and it is ending the manufacture of lift trucks in Ohio and moving some production to Britain and South Korea. "The strong dollar actually encourages the transfer of manufacturing to places other than the U.S.," says Erskine Chapman, Caterpillar's head of worldwide sales. The company has arranged new manufacturing agreements with firms in South Korea, West Germany and Norway. Executive Vice President Peter Donis recently hinted that Caterpillar may even reduce operations in Peoria, where...
...their new home in Campeche last week found inadequate housing and almost no water. Being accustomed to breezy higher altitudes, they worried about whether they could survive in Campeche's torrid jungle. Conditions were so bad that a group of Mexico's Catholic bishops condemned the transfer, saying that the refugees were being "abandoned to their luck." The Mexican government responded by naming a new director for the agency responsible for refugees, its third in two years. The move was not expected to ease the problem...
This influx could result in crowding in the Houses, when students returning from leave--whose places the transfer students filled--return to the system, according to Dingman. Dingman predicts that the crunch may force the Houses to accomodate as many as 30 extra people. "We're counting on the Houses to be as inventive as they can about this. For example, seniors may not get the type of accomodations they traditionally have been promised," he says...