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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither a smoker nor a drinker, Duarte has had scant time for his favorite sport of basketball. For exercise, he often takes a stroll after lunch around the presidential compound accompanied by his omnipresent bodyguards. "Nappo," as friends call him, dabbles at landscape painting, but he seeks relaxation mainly in talking politics with cronies or with Inés, his wife of 35 years. Sometimes he seeks out one of his six grown children for political advice: Alejandro, 33, is mayor of San Salvador, a job the elder Duarte held for six years...
...Nixon a blanket pardon for any crimes he may have committed in the White House, but the U.S. public was less forgiving. Polls consistently showed that two-thirds of all Americans thought Nixon should not have been pardoned and should never again hold any public office. Visitors to his compound at San Clemente during those first months reported that Nixon was morbidly depressed, devastated, possibly suicidal...
...child Clara by a lover); she was also a kleptomaniac specializing in chocolate. Since then her crimes have escalated. She is now a member of the Front for the Liberation of Europe, a violent terrorist gang. The ingenuous Harvey is abruptly surrounded by lawyers and well-wishers who compound his confusion and television reporters who increase his distress. They are, of course, the modem equivalents of Job's comforters and plagues...
...They compound this irony with the ultimate hypocrisy: they declare that the world is overpopulated and encourage--or force--Third World countries to undertake birth control and sterility programs ignoring their desire for land, and in some cases, economic dependence on large families...
...combat. The young mother who reads it may have a degree in psychology from Michigan State, but as she cleans up after the puppy while trying to separate two children who are fighting over a linty piece of bubble gum, she may not be in the mood for compound-complex sentences. She may smile over a column by Art Buchwald, the master of the discovered absurdity, or one of Russell Baker's elegantly sane demonstrations that the world is crazy. But if she enlists in an army, it is likely to be Bombeck's. Am I really down...