Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down criminal charges in February against former Dictator Luis Garcia Meza, citing acts of sedition, armed revolt and assassination, many hoped that the anticipated supreme court trial would clean up the image of a nation tarnished by a flagrant cocaine trade, official corruption and worse. Last week, after three brief sessions, the trial ground to a halt. As the civilian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro stood by, the twelve-member supreme court proved unable to come up with a quorum of judges to reconvene the case. Said a well-placed diplomatic observer: "People are afraid. There's no question...
Today Weiss's beard is flecked with gray, and he is less sanguine about his future. Since bouncing around academe for six years, he has held a variety of jobs, including a brief stint as executive editor of Playgirl magazine. Still single, he is a free-lance writer and editor living in a rented apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. He has an enviable view of the ocean, but what he really wants, he says, "is to settle down and have a family." He feels funny about turning 40 this year. "Middle age sounds a bit strange because many...
...always enjoyed Arizona, so he was delighted when a law-enforcement job opened up in nearby Tombstone. Tombstone had been around since 1877, when the discovery of silver deposits rushed it into being. Like so many other by now familiar Western mining towns, it had a brief population explosion, a flirt with naughty notoriety (in 1880 a good-hearted young local attorney made note of the fast life in the dance halls, saloons and casinos, then appended a letter home: "Still there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town"), and finally fell into desuetude, having little more...
Finally, a letter from Overseers Secretary Robert Shenton, highlighting the enclosed "brief, factual description" of Harvard's policies on South Africa, all backing Mrs. Bok's letter. As has been cogently demonstrated by others, the Harvard description is not so objectively factual; it is, rather, in the sense Mr. Shenton did not intend, a "brief," and as such ought properly to have been accompanied by an answering brief...
Stung by the Western reporting, the Soviet media launched a week-long counterattack. Each limited disclosure about Chernobyl was followed by a shrill TASS account of nuclear problems in the U.S. and Europe. On Wednesday the Soviets went further. In a three-minute news brief carried on all three Moscow channels, an announcer lashed out at the foreign coverage. Said he: "Some news agencies in the West are spreading rumors that thousands of people allegedly perished during the accident at the atomic power station. It has already been reported that in reality two people died and only 197 were hospitalized...