Word: formers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to Ron Benham, former chair of the Neighborhood Coalition, Healy said he would make sure that the center was docketed for next year's budget. "I will make every effort to include the total funding request in the 1991 fiscal budget," Healy wrote. "However, given the severe fiscal constraints which the state is placing on the city, the total may have to be spread across two years...
...December 1948, the manager of the federal Oak Ridge weapons plant in Tennessee recommended to the AEC's advisory committee that workers quitting the weapons program be told if they had exceeded the government's own daily radiation exposure limits and that medical aid be given if a former worker developed a radiation-related illness, the Glenn report said...
Henry Grunwald, U.S. Ambassador to Austria (and former editor-in-chief of Time Inc.), who expressed his personal views, acknowledged that there would be "a great temptation for the Soviets and others to have a little repression on the way to free markets," a process he called "perestroika without glasnost." But Grunwald doubted even that would have the desired result. He pointed out that while some Asian economies -- Taiwan's and South Korea's, for example -- flourished under authoritarian regimes, much of Latin America's had not. Said he: "There must be a degree of democracy and freedom for people...
Eden Pastora, the perennial Nicaraguan maverick, returned to Managua last week in a homecoming more quixotic than heroic. The charismatic former guerrilla will campaign for dark-horse Social Christian presidential candidate Erick Ramirez, touting him as an alternative to both the Marxist Sandinistas and the National Opposition Union, a coalition dominated by the right wing...
...revolutionary superstar in 1978 after leading a raid on the National Palace that helped topple the Somoza regime a year later. Partly because he was unhappy with the Sandinistas' growing dependence on Moscow, he quit as Vice Minister of Defense and in 1983 launched a guerrilla war against his former comrades. But he rejected CIA pressure to join the main contra faction and was finally forced to quit fighting...