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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there. Meanwhile, Panama has forced the United States to shut down its School of the Americas, training ground for thousands of Latin American soldiers. And in Costa Rica, the fragile democracy is chafing under Washington's efforts to militarize the country, and it refused a recent U.S. request to extend an airstrip near its border with Nicaragua...
...Salvador to Detroit, the lines are drawn. And while Harvard continues to drape its butchers in academic robes and make mass murder "respectable." we will continue to mobilize students to take a side with workers and peasants throughout the world. Military Victory to Salvadoran Leftists! Defend, Complete, Extend the Nicaraguan Revolution! Smash Apartheid--For Workers Revolution! For Unconditional Military Defense of the USSR and Cuba! keep the Butchers on the Run! Thomas N. Crean '86 Spartacus Youth League
...office, Masselli moved aggressively to take over the subcontracts from Nargi's old company. U.S. law requires that any contractor receiving a federal public works grant must award 10% of the business to minority-owned companies. Since some 80% of Schiavone's $186 million contract to extend a subway under the East River was federally financed, the Schiavone company needed to find a so-called MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) to do part of the work. Thus Masselli set up the Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Co. and claimed that at least 51% of it was owned by Joseph...
...wants to take the notion of social agreement on certain moral principles that will seem to be reasonable and extend it to a general and more comprehensive moral view," Rawis said last year on the occasion of Scanlon's acceptance...
Despite the rancor, there is hope for negotiations that could bring about a postponement of Nicaragua's election. "Nothing is impossible," says one Coordinadora official, who points sout that the Sandinistas agreed recently to reverse a previous descision and extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for candidates to register for the election. But the Sandinistas' sudden public relations campaign of sweet reason seemed to some former admirers to lack conviction. At a two-day meeting of representatives from Central America, Contadora and the European Community in Costa Rica at week's end, one European diplomat remarked...