Word: costa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balance the print coverage has been very good," says Peter Costa, director of the Harvard News Office. "They have been assessing what Harvard is and what its contribution has been," he adds. "I'm pleased that they still consider us the preeminent institution...
...Costa says that much of the coverage about the 350th has been very general but adds that press releases from his office haven't been entirely laudatory of Harvard. He points to a lengthy piece on "The Black Presence at Harvard," written by Caldwell Titcomb '47, which documents how the University shunned Black students until very recently. The piece also discusses Lowell's racism and anti-Semitism...
...defeated. Finally, after two stormy days of debate, the Senate last week voted by the expected margin of 53 to 47 to enact the package. The measure provides $70 million in military help and $30 million in "humanitarian" aid for the contras, plus $300 million in assistance to Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. It now faces a House-Senate conference committee, where Speaker Tip O'Neill may again attempt to stall it. But even Democratic opponents expect it to pass before November's midterm elections...
...involvement like the Viet Nam War. Said Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum: "Make no mistake, the contras are not freedom fighters. They are U.S.-backed terrorists." Tom Harkin of Iowa warned that U.S. military trainers were likely to be drawn into skirmishes with Sandinista soldiers, who have been crossing into Costa Rica and Honduras in pursuit of contras. But Dole, speaking for the aid measure, warned, " The game is over, and now it's time to act. The Sandinistas are already firmly in Moscow's pocket...
Orange's once easy-stepping social life has become a gilded fandango. Says Social Lioness Floss Schumacher, wife of retired Global Van Lines Chairman Edward Schumacher: "People are suddenly clamoring for white tie and tails." September will bring the opening of a 3,000-seat arts center in Costa Mesa, financed entirely by $71 million in donations...