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...first time we believe the government has responded to the call of treating right-wing extremist violence with the same degree of interest and activity and will as they have dealt with left-wing extremist violence." Last week Major José Ricardo Pozo and Lieut. Colonel Aristedes Alfonso Márquez, two senior intelligence officers with links to the death squads, were assigned abroad. Other officers are also said to be on their way to diplomatic postings in South American countries with military regimes. Still, death squads are a force in El Salvador. Rightists in the country have begun...
...priorities reversed. Its subject is the aspirations and frustrations of the black middle class. Daddy (Samuel E. Wright) is a successful lawyer, living in a Manhattan duplex with his wife Ginnie (Hattie Winston), their 13-year-old daughter Emma (Marline Allard) and their ten-year-old son Willie (Alfonso Ribeiro). Emma wants to be an attorney; Willie just gotta dance, under the eager tutorial eye of his raffish uncle Dipsey (Hinton Battle). If Dad is willing to indulge Emma's career goal, he is adamant that Willie will never put on taps. "We didn...
...Associate Editor Kurt Andersen, who wrote the accompanying piece on Marine life, got down to work with Muller; indeed, all three had left the office well after dark the night before. By dawn more than two score other staff members, including Reporter-Researchers Betty Satterwhite Sutler and Nelida Gonzalez-Alfonso, had been called in to help...
...economy, Costa Ricans lobbied for a $3 billion, ten-year U.S. aid program for their country. The most controversial encounter of the day, however, was unscheduled. After announcing that he would not meet with "people engaged in guerrilla warfare," Kissinger and two other commission members held a talk with Alfonso Robelo, a leader of the U.S.-supported rebels battling to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. Kissinger later said that his meeting with Robelo would be the tour's last with rebels of any stripe...
...Cape Town, on its way home with 250,000 tons of Persian Gulf crude oil, when at 1:30 a.m. crewmen discovered a fire near the ship's bridge. The crew attacked the blaze with foam extinguishers, but within minutes the fire was out of control. Said Captain Alfonso Civera: "The whole ship became an inferno...