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...what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...
Other highlights include impressions of Mae West, W. C. Field, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, in several of the production's numbers...
...frustration. After initial hesitation, the proud Mexicans, who historically have rejected foreign assistance following natural disasters, decided to welcome outside emergency aid. Within two days of the quake, U.S. Air Force C-5A Galaxy, C-141 StarLifter and C-130 Hercules transports were flying into Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport from eight U.S. air bases. Their cargo holds were filled with portable generators, jackhammers, jacks and winches. The planes also ferried in sleeping bags, cots, blankets and, ominously, 5,000 rubberized body bags. By week's end about 350 tons of U.S. supplies had been airlifted, along with some...
Runways at Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport were largely intact, but flights into the stricken capital were halted for a while as officials checked for damage. By nightfall, Mexican airlines and most U.S. carriers resumed service. Some of the initial eyewitness accounts of the tragedy came from travelers on the first flights...
SENTENCED. Jack Elder, 41, Roman Catholic activist director of a shelter in San Benito, Texas, that provides sanctuary to illegal Central American refugees; to 150 days in a halfway house, after being convicted in February of transporting Salvadorans who illegally entered the country and of conspiracy; in Brownsville, Texas. Elder, facing a maximum of 30 years, refused an offer of two years' probation if he would end his activities and public support for the sanctuary movement. The judge imposed a light jail sentence, he said, because "I admire your motivation...