Word: ap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about who will win, while television stars plan their careers around whether or not their show's political content will survive a Reagan election. In the tiny town of San Juan Del Norte, one of the few the Reagan CIA contras hold, a guard now stops journalists from entering. AP reported last week that the guard, who is a member of the "Democratic Revolutionary Alliance," said he had orders from his commander not to allow any journalists to pass through to the Nicaraguan port, because it is being bombed by the Sandinista's air force and he could not guarantee...
...underdeveloped nations are calling for a New International Information Order (NIIO); to solve some basic problems. One is news imperialism; Brazilians often read about Brazil in UPI or AP service stories. Another problem is the stereotyping of the Third World in the Western media. And a third problem, whosxe catchword is Western cultural imperialism, is the world mindest that creates an cettt, and makes scores of poor children in Israel wear "Starsky and Hutch" t-shirts...
...basically a fall-back for students who do not get work-study [government loans] or student-funded fellowships," said Feldvebel. Last year over 60 students applied for the 22 student-funded grants, Markus added. Ap- proximately 50 students get work-study each summer...
Many of the stories are credited simply: "Special to USA Today." According to spokesman Clark, "That means the story could have been rewritten from the AP or UPI wires-- with additional research--or it could mean that it was contributed from one of Gannett's 85 other papers. But they're re-researched, not just rewritten...
...American Repertory Theatre is currently putting on three one-act plays--two of them by Beckett--amorphous enough to make Waiting for Godot seem full of plot. Only after a good deal of thought does the substance of Beckett's Footfalls and Rockaby become ap parent: Footfalls explores a mother-daughter relationship, while Rockaby portrays a woman persuading herself to die. The third play, Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, provides a more concrete setting for the very abstract emotions which characterize the evening...