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...Presidential Transition Trust, which laid out $192,198. Those expenditures supplemented the $2 million that the Government made available to finance the transition. Donations for both funds were collected largely by Daniel J. Terra, a major Republican money raiser who is now President Reagan's Ambassador-at-Large for Cultural Affairs. Terra told prospective donors in one letter that the money would be used partly to pay expenses of transition workers that would not be reimbursable from the federal treasury but would be considered proper in private business...
...unit's main task will be to uphold the country's revised criminal code, which is designed to make prosecutions easier, and to investigate death-squad murders. The first case on their blotter: the 1980 assassi nation of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Ro mero. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White has accused Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist opponent in last month's elections, of masterminding that murder, although the charge has never been proved. "Nobody is going to be above the law in this government," Duarte told TIME. "If Roberto d'Aubuisson...
...domestic affairs have become more stable, Juan Carlos has been able to turn his attention to ending the international isolation Francoism required. Acting more as a super ambassador than a official diplomatic representative, he has travelled extensively in an attempt to make Spain seem more accessible. Last year it was Africa and Latin America, this year Canada and the Soviet Union...
...December, two prominent scholars at Harvard graduate schools died. Stimson Professor of Law C. Clyde Ferguson, an authority on human rights and affirmative action, died at 59 of a heart attack. Ferguson had served as dein of Howard University Law School and U.S. ambassador to Uganda, and had held numerous other academic and diplomatic posts before joining the Law School faculty...
...city to which he was exiled in 1980. French Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais said that sources "at the highest level" had implied to him that Sakharov, who has a history of heart disease, was in "satisfactory" health and under regular observation at a Gorky clinic. Later the Soviet Ambassador to France told Socialist Party Leader Lionel Jospin that Bonner and Sakharov were well and in their Gorky apartment. Neither account persuaded Tatyana Yankelevich, Bonner's daughter by her first marriage. Said she: "We can not exclude the possibility that Sakharov is no longer alive...