Word: corea
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...providing tissue to treat themselves or a family member. Ray Leith, a young woman whose aging father has Parkinson's disease, declared her willingness to do so on national television early this year; her father refused the offer. Others have raised even broader fears that, as Feminist Author Gena Corea puts it, "women will be pressured by doctors and families, or by economic need, to become fetal factories...
...most serious incident so far, Yanira Corea, a 24-year-old Salvadoran activist, was forced at knifepoint by two men who spoke with Salvadoran accents into a van outside the downtown-Los Angeles office of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a group opposing U.S. policies in Central America. For several hours, she told police, she was kept blindfolded in the van as her abductors cut her hands, burned her with cigarettes and sexually assaulted her, while they questioned her about CISPES' activities and membership. When they set her free, says Corea, the kidnapers told...
Clearly, the decisive influence on Soviet young people yearning for Western pop culture has been foreign broadcasting. When Willis Conover, who since 1954 has conducted the Voice of America's jazz program, went to Moscow last month with Musicians Chick Corea and Gary Burton, some 500 people jammed into an auditorium with 400 seats. Conover took the microphone and said, "Hello, I'm Willis . . ." He got no further. The young people erupted in cheers. They had grown up listening to that voice on the short wave. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Jane Tempest/Moscow
...that has done the most to build the five-man European company into the world's most thriving jazz label ranges in style and quality from the vaulting improvisational rhapsodies of Keith Jarrett to the congenial jazz-rock fusion of Pat Metheny and the slick sketches of Chick Corea. Jarrett, Metheny and Corea account for most of the label's top ten albums. Jarrett's ravishingly beautiful The Köln Concert, released in 1975, has sold more than 750,000 copies-a strong showing for a double album in any league, even rock...