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Nicaraguan battle lines of a different kind seemed to have been drawn irrevocably at a meeting of the 58-nation Socialist International in Rio de Janeiro. Politicians at the meeting tried mightily to broker an agreement between the Sandinistas and their foremost democratic opponent, Arturo Cruz Porras, in order to allow Cruz and his backers to participate in the Nov. 4 elections, which have become an acid test of the Sandinistas' democratic intentions. Opposition forces have argued that they need more time to mount an effective campaign. Cruz and Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed...
Rumor has it that Hames Q. Wilson. Shattuck Professor of Government and one of the country's foremost experts on law and order, accepted part-time tenure at the University of California at Los Angeles because of a longtime affinity for scuba-diving...
Wilson, a native Californian and one of the country's foremost experts on crime and bureaucracy, said that at the end of the three years he will choose between...
...biggest loss was that of Mellon Professor of Divinity Krister Stendahl, who announed plans to leave Harvard this September to become the Bishop of Stockholm in the Church of Sweden. Stendahl, who came to Harvard from Sweden 30 years ago, is one of the world's foremost authorities on The New Testament, and he served as dean of the school from...
...principal defense witness at the Flacks' trial was Dr. Martin Orne, one of the nation's foremost experts on hypnosis, who says that Forney's description of events was a classic case of "confabulation," in which a hypnotized subject fills in gaps in his memory with information sometimes suggested to him by police or the hypnotist. Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist, says that Forney was particularly susceptible to suggestion, given his borderline IQ of 74 and a history of mental problems in his family. The psychiatrist, who has for years been conducting a relentless campaign against...