Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Personality characteristics and friendship patterns that begin to develop early in childhood can strongly influence later decisions regarding drug use," said Gene M. Smith, the study's author, a psychologist at MGH and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School...
...DENYING the Contadora group full support, Washington is putting the countries of Central America in a position where they have to choose between the friendship of the Northern power or of a Central American neighbor. Contadora will never resolve the Nicaraguan conflict without active U.S. participation. The Reagan Administration has steadfastly ignored Contadora's objectives: peace, democracy and stability, in both the long and short term. It is up to Congress to incorporate these goals into U.S. policy...
Soviet interest in the Brest-Lorient region in northwestern France was cited in November 1983 by Brest Mayor Jacques Berthelot. He suspended a friendship agreement with the city of Tallinn in Estonia, saying Brest was becoming a key point for Soviet spying...
...government policy. He says that freedom of religion "is an inalienable right of the individual," but, because of past tensions, he still supports the exclusion of Christians from Communist Party membership, which effectively prevents them from holding important government posts. What does the Vatican make of Castro's friendship campaign? "So far we have only words," says one official. "We want to see acts...
...refugees now living in Los Angeles, the resolution controverts the Reagan Administration's policy of deporting them. Last week Harold Ezell, Western regional commissioner of the INS, went to Washington to propose cutting off Los Angeles' federal funds in retaliation. Ezell has some clout in the Administration through his friendship with Attorney General Ed Meese, but his superiors at INS were in no hurry to support his proposal. "We're certainly not in favor of the resolution," said INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "It tends to encourage illegal immigration." Still, he added, "it's more a moral problem than a practical...