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...country is beginning to prepare for November elections that are expected to bring to power Guatemala's first nonmilitary government in two decades. The elections are part of a campaign to win increased financial support from the U.S., particularly a resumption of military aid, which was halted under the Carter Administration in 1977 because of the country's human rights record...
...depends on who actually writes such autobiographies. Linda Bird Francke was signed up for the Ferraro story partly because of her success in working on the best-selling memoirs of Rosalynn Carter. The O'Neill project is in the hands of William Novak, who wrote Iacocca. "A publisher would pay a lot for Novak," says one agent. "In a business fraught with insecurity and fear, anything that reduces that fear increases in value...
...agreement actually signed by the two superpowers at the concluding ceremony on Thursday will re-establish educational, scientific, cultural and athletic exchanges that were dropped by President Carter when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Reagan has expressed the hope that such "people-to-people" communication will lead to better understanding between East and West...
Most legislators enthusiastically agreed. But a few cautioned that the hard work is still to be done. "He's setting himself up for having to produce," noted Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "That looks like a tall order." Scoffed Jimmy Carter's arms-control adviser, Paul Warnke, "The music was much better than the lyrics. There wasn't much substance to the words...
Sand's decision, which resulted from a suit filed by Jimmy Carter's Justice Department in late 1980, was politely applauded by the Reagan Administration. The N.A.A.C.P., which became a joint plaintiff in 1981, saw the ruling as a boost for similar cases in Milwaukee and Kansas City. Said N.A.A.C.P. Assistant General Counsel Michael Sussman: "We knew we were going to win all along." So perhaps did Yonkers' political establishment, which expressed no surprise at the ruling. Some of the city's officials acknowledge that segregation exists, but have denied that public planning had anything to do with it. DRUGS...