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BEETLES, DRAGONFLIES and even a stray butterfly or two are creeping into the home-décor market, shooing away the graphic, geometric prints that have for so long dominated the scene. Mother Nature now alights on everything from John Derian découpage platters to branch-shaped candle holders by Michael Aram. Even Van Cleef & Arpels is escaping to the garden with a dazzling dragonfly clip. ?By Betsy Kroll
Dunham stopped all 18 Stars shots in the period. He made glove saves on Jason Botterill and Jamie Langenbrunner, then stacked the pads on Grant Marshall's attempt. Early in the third, he robbed Jere Lehtinen on a 2-on-1 and Derian Hatcher on the rebound...
...blistering attack on the record of the Nicaraguan regime by the International League for Human Rights was based in part on a weeklong fact- finding trip to Nicaragua in February led by Patricia Derian, former President Jimmy Carter's human rights chief. It catalogs dozens of Nicaraguan violations, including torture, denial of due process to thousands of political detainees, and refusal to allow labor unions to strike or engage in collective bargaining. "The recent actions of the government to expel two Roman Catholic priests and the closing down of the newspaper La Prensa are not new," concedes Nina Shea...
...Jung flew back to South Korea. His arrival produced a scuffle that involved about 50 South Korean security agents and a delegation of 22 Americans, among them two Democratic Congressmen, who had accompanied Kim to Seoul to make sure he got home safely. The group included Patricia Derian, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights during the Carter Administration, and Carter's last Ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White, who strongly opposes Reagan Administration policies in Central America. Both are firmly committed human rights advocates...
Walker also expressed the view that some of the Americans had "provoked" the airport trouble in order to create "a media event." That triggered angry replies from the Americans involved in the incident. Said Derian: "Baloney." Said White: "We were attacked by a flying wedge of plainclothes goons." Added another member of the group, Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, Texas attorney and onetime gubernatorial candidate: "We were being as careful as we could because the whole point was to get Kim safely back home." As for Ambassador Walker, she snapped, "He really couldn't have cared less what happened...