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...government official, Silva experienced first-hand the frustration of attempting to improve Salvadoran health conditions in the face of government corruption and right-wing repression. At one point, he said in the speech he attempted to expose a high official as responsible for the disappearance of $150,000 of U S. medical supplies. He wrote to the health minister, but the official resigned in protest of the tendency for the military to cover up health problems. Then Silva informed the attorney general, but shortly thereafter the man was assassinated after being labelled a communist by rightist ARENA party leader Roberto...
...Senate was a highly centralized organization, where arm twisting leadership would mandate voting patterns. However, he didn't find the legislative power-brokers he expected, he discovered instead "a building which runs entirely on rumor. It's the only place I've been where you can get rumor first-hand from the principal of the rumor...
...Associate Editor George Russell, who wrote the story, the subtleties of Mexico's complex national character had a familiar flavor. As TIME'S Buenos Aires bureau chief from 1979 to 1981, Russell got a first-hand education in Latin American culture. He was also the writer of some half a dozen cover stories on the Falklands war between Argentina and Britain Russell, born in Canada, was particularly conscious of Mexico's status as a next-door neighbor...
...This first-hand view of the atom's destructive power--and his own role in unleashing that power--deepened Kistiakowsky's sense of the imperative need for peace in the nuclear age. "After working so long on those weapons," he said many years later, "I came to the conclusion that the time had come to control them." As a science advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, Kistiakowsky earned a reputation within the highest circles of government as one of disarmament's most eloquent and distinguished spokesmen...
...Ever since I heard about Jane Goodall and her work with chimps I knew what I wanted to be. I was very lucky that I had the first-hand experience--and the equipment--to get started...