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Pointedly, Duarte had nothing to say at that time about another, earlier presidential address in nearby Nicaragua. There, Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo delivered a variation on his government's view that the U.S. should abandon its current policy in El Salvador in favor of recommending negotiations between all interested parties, a position favored by the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church (see box). At week's end, Duarte finally dismissed Lopez Portillo's suggestion as "utopian...
...told Haig with conviction that he had to accept, even though it would probably mean the end of his military career. Haig replied that when he had gone on patrol in Viet Nam, he had risked not only his career but his life; he had no right to abandon his Commander in Chief in distress. He was shamingly right...
...late for that. The tape was the last straw; it provided the pretext for waverers to commit themselves to impeachment and for others to abandon Nixon. By now there had been too many shocks; everybody wanted to get it over with...
SEVERAL YEARS BACK, a certain Harvard College freshmen made the brave decision to abandon his past and find himself for real. He looked first among campus singing groups but soon left to try crew, where he was assessed as something less than Olympic material. The obvious next step? Set design. Within a few months this persistent fellow if it big on the House drama circuit, and his first major production was to have been the annual Law School show...
...Ranger had not been inspected in two years, and its U.S. Coast Guard certificate of inspection had expired on Dec. 27. Two Coast Guard officers were on their way from Providence to recertify the rig when last week's storm hit. Only nine days before the accident, an abandon-ship alarm was sounded when a valve for one of the Ocean Ranger's 16 ballast tanks was inadvertently opened by a crew member and the rig developed a 5° list...