State Leaders Issue 1988 Budget and Education Focus
Governors across the states highlight budgeting and education as top priorities for 1988 while contending with fiscal deficits, tax changes, and rising education spending. The AP survey notes AIDS policy shifts, with several states considering laws on disclosure and testing, and Illinois and Louisiana enacting wide AIDS legislation last year.
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George Deukmejian
California
Buddy Roemer
Louisiana
New York
Mario Cuomo
Arizona
Iowa
Kentucky
West Virginia
Illinois
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Nebraska
Hawaii
Vote Delay Urged as Philippines Local Elections Threatened
Manila reports Vice President Salvador Laurel called for postponing the January local elections due to violence and kidnappings. He urged the election commission to delay in Quezon as two gubernatorial candidates for his UNIDO slate were abducted from a campaign convoy near Mauban. Gunfire targeted a vice mayoral candidate in Paranaque, while an intelligence officer was shot dead in Bacolod City. Overall, more than 56 people, including at least 26 candidates, have been killed since campaigning began.
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Manila
Philippines
Salvador Laurel
Fidel V. Ramos
Communist Party
Geneerat 6 Yona
Paranaque
Corazon Aquino
Tomas Banaga
Dingo Mamaril
Bacolod City
Laurel
United Nationalist Democratic Organization
The
Election Commission
Quezon
Ie Rodriguez
Robert Irlis
Mauban
Amnesty Law Strains Central American Ties
In El Salvador a peace plan amnesty sparks domestic division and tensions with the United States. Duarte’s centrist government faces criticism for freeing leftist guerrillas and alleged rightist abusers, while Washington denounces the release of two former guardsmen linked to 1981 killings. More than 400 prisoners were freed, about a third on leftist lists, others for common crimes or suspected guerrilla ties.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
United States
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Washington
U.S. State Department
Land Reform Agency
Committee of Political Prisoners
Associated Press
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William Donald Schaefer
Kansas
Tennessee
Ned McWherter
Ers
Ray Mabus
Colorado State Senate
Ted Strickland
National Conference of State Legislatures
Georgia
Porky Bradberry
al Teair
Coats
Blazers
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