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...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, charged with enforcing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, announced that it would move away from bringing suits aimed at helping entire classes of minorities and instead seek to remedy only individual discrimination, which is more difficult and costly to prove. Said EEOC Commissioner Fred Alvarez: "When somebody tells me they ought to get something because they're Irish and saw signs in Boston that said IRISH NEED NOT APPLY . . . or because their ancestors were in slavery, I say, 'So what...
...monument," explained Everett Alvarez Jr., a Navy veteran who was the first American pilot to be shot down over North Viet Nam, "marks the final step of dedicated effort to overcome the past...
...motive for seeking to overthrow Suazo remains in doubt, but law-enforcement sources speculate that the conspirators wanted to reinstate General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, who was deposed last spring as armed forces commander and de facto leader of the country by the current regime. Bueso Rosa, the former Honduran Army Chief of Staff, was demoted and sent to Chile after Alvarez's deposal...
...known to be close friends, but Alvarez, who now lives in exile in Tampa, denied knowledge of the conspiracy...
While the causes of extinction of the dinosuars have led to endless speculation, a group at the University of California at Berkeley led by Luis and Walter Alvarez have proposed a theory gaining wide acceptance as one of the plausible explanations...