Kidnapping Victim Freed in Beirut
Danielle Perez a French Embassy employee was freed unharmed nine days after her abduction in west Beirut. The same raids saw the kidnapping of Ishaq Sassoun, leader of Beirut’s Jewish community, as two other Jews were abducted in the prior days. Westerners held since March 14 remain unaccounted for.
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Defense firms doubling political gifts in Reagan era
An Associated Press review shows the 20 top defense contractors more than doubled their PAC contributions from 1980 to 1984 to 3.64 million dollars while Pentagon contracts rose to 69 billion. Rockwell International led with 328 thousand in PAC money as it expanded from 1 billion to 8.4 billion in defense contracts.
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Federal Election Commission
Duarte claims big gains in El Salvador election
Duarte and his Christian Democrats claimed control of the National Assembly in elections marked by festive mood and scattered violence. An exit poll backed their victory, while opponents and Western observers doubted results, with actual tallies due midweek.
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Christian Democrats
National Assembly
U.S
Civil rights report on state facilities cites secrecy and slow enforcement
The piece notes limited public airing of state facility concerns, with monitors and staff facing secrecy. It highlights violence as a ward life feature, forced isolation of mentally ill and mentally retarded residents, and slow DOJ enforcement under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. William Bradford Reynolds criticizes the report as lacking full enforcement information.
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Japan trade talks face tariffs if barriers persist
Sigur arrived in Tokyo with under secretary Lionel Olivier as the Senate backed a non binding measure urging Reagan to impose quotas and tariffs if Japan fails to lower trade obstacles. Progress was noted after talks with Morio Koyama while the U S seeks growth in electronics forest products and medical trade and Reagan weighs cabinet review this week.
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Bureaucratic cuts hit D C s economy hard
Washington suffers from Reagan era federal payroll cuts and regulation restraint says a Greater Washington Research Center study. The report titled The Changing Washington Economy argues federal jobs cease to stimulate growth. one quarter of the 1.7 million local workers are federal employees, and the city risks a recessionary downturn after decades of growth.
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