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...Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on Central America (COCA) is coordinating a Cambridge campaign seeking passage of a referendum opposing U.S. military aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras...
Jamie B. Raskin '83, spokesman for COCA, said the referendum is important as a "symbolic force telling Reagan to stop backing the dictators and armies" of the three Central American countries targeted by the referendum...
...social access they could never belong. Eleven years later, the Clampetts are settled, even smug, with no remaining sense of wonder about the world. CBS has concocted a wacko two-hour plot about using moonshine to replace gasoline. But there are no warmhearted wackos to populate it, except Imogene Coca, too late to save the show as the late Granny's eccentric...
...Shenzhen (the new spelling under the Pinyin system) is now a vast building site. Construction crews stir dust as they dig sewers, build roads and prepare foundations for factories and apartment buildings. Local women wearing skintight jeans made in Hong Kong sell U.S. and British cigarettes and cans of Coca-Cola from roadside stalls. Hackies hustle bewildered visitors, demanding as much as $65 an hour for riding in their dilapidated Japanese-made taxis...
...time it is heard, yet sound as if it has been around forever. The tunes sometimes become so popular that they are sold as records. The public bought a million copies of I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in 1971, while a slightly different version-Coca Cola's I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke-was saturating the air waves free. Some tunes are adapted from classics. Some, like Steve Karmen's I Love New York, are endlessly repeatable four-note phrases. Last year New York Times Music Writer Edward Rothstein...