Word: arruda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside the stadium, where the usual phalanx of police with dogs and automatic weapons ringed the field before the game, the Soviet Union's hard-working Andrei Bal shocked the crowd of 70,000 when his shot was mishandled by Brazil's Goalie Waldir Peres Arruda. Then came a dazzling display of attacking, creative soccer. A player named Dr. Socrates B. Oliveira, 28, Brazil's physician-turned-forward and the squad's field general, came to life against the Soviets, who had trained near Moscow and were unprepared for the 86° heat of Seville. Socrates...
Union President Dominic M. Bozzotto said this week, "I'm convinced in my heart that Arruda has rehabilitated himself," adding, "[he] deserved better from Harvard, he was doing everything...
Powers added that the University has no plans to rehire Arruda and that any decision to do so would be voluntary...
Powers downplayed the importance of the arbitration but was unhappy that Bozzotto had "tried to deal with it outside the normal procedure," by demanding Arruda's reinstation before the arbitration was complete and refusing the University permission to speak with certain witnesses...
...Arruda arbitration is the second Local 26 has had with Harvard since Bozzotto took office one year ago, but only the first concerning a firing. Before the decision he said, "It was important to show Harvard and the members of the union that we follow through on grievances...