Word: broads
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...Reagan regularly to review the whole range of Government problems and will be charged with making sure that his orders are carried out. Thus the people filling these posts-basically the Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury and the Attorney General-must be capable of giving advice on a broad variety of subjects...
...Price, professor of Public Policy and a speaker on "Science and Technology," yesterday called the sessions "a chance to expose them [the newly-elected congressmen] to some fairly broad ideas on the state of the world and the issues they'll have to deal with...
...Romero, has proved powerless against the wave of terror loosed by both the left and the right. In what amounts to an undeclared civil war, 8,400 people have been killed in terrorist attacks so far this year. Last week brought one of the most barbaric acts yet. In broad daylight, as the six men who led the country's left conferred in the Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists burst in, brazenly seized them, dragged them off and executed them. Hours later, their bullet-ridden bodies were found outside the city...
...Algerian city of El Asnam nearly two months ago, killing more than 2,500, occurred almost precisely at one of the points where the African and Eurasian plates are believed to be thrusting against each other. But the Italian peninsula is also being wrenched by other forces within this broad pressure pattern. It is being pinched from the west by the Eurasian plate and from the east by a subdivision of the African plate known as the Apulian. Presumably, strains from these opposing forces caused the Italian quake. Says Florence-born Seismologist Leonardo Seeber, now at Columbia University...
Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government and Director of the CFIA yesterday called Cooper, who has been in the State Department since 1977, a "major addition to the center in international affairs issues." The top choice of a panel of "experts" consulted about the appointment, Cooper has a "broad range of interests" which make him ideal for the chair, he added...