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Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.: "In urging you beyond ideology, I offer the view of one person, one who is clearly middleaged, middleclass, middle of the road-a view of one not given to extremes but to the middle. My middle view is the view of the centrist. I do not simply urge a long night of watching against the ideologue's delusive plausibility. I urge the positive, balanced, continuous operation of the mind and spirit that surges to do the work of civilization from the center without simplistic zealotry...
Mexican Author and Diplomat Carlos Fuentes at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.: "Nationalism represents a profound value for Latin Americans simply because of the fact that our nationhood is still in question. In New York, Paris or London, no one loses sleep asking themselves whether the nation exists. In Latin America you can wake up and find that the nation s no longer there, usurped by a military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green...
...director whose nomination as permanent head of bureau was withdrawn before he admitted burning Watergate evidence. Accused with two aides by Justice Department in 1978 of approving illegal FBI break-ins. After charges were dropped, he filed $5.5 million suit against Government; suit still pending. Lives in Mystic, Conn. Practices...
...less than during the same months in 1978. The automakers continue to confront the problems that first triggered their prolonged slump: high interest rates, a weak economy and fierce competition from Japanese imports. Says Fran McCormack, general manager of Clayton Motors Dodge in East Hartford, Conn.: "There are obviously a lot of people who need to replace their cars who are still waiting for interest rates to come down. People live and breathe those rates...
Gabrielle Napolitano, 21, is having a most unexpected ending to her distinguished undergraduate years at Princeton University. A top scholar-athlete at her Stamford, Conn., high school, she was assiduously recruited by several colleges, but picked the ivy of Princeton. Sidelined from the women's basketball team by a knee injury during her freshman year, she put in long hours helping to manage both the men's baseball and women's basketball teams, while attaining a superb 3.7 out of 4.0 average as an English major. By her senior spring, she was awaiting acceptance by several...