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...political parties after strong prodding from the Salvadoran military and the U.S. embassy. The same agreement also led to the election of three Vice Presidents instead of one. Representing the largest parties in the assembly, they were Raúl Molina Martinez of the rightist National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.), Gabriel Mauricio Gutiérrez Castro of ARENA, and Pablo Mauricio Alvergue of the centrist Christian Democrats. The result gave at least the appearance of a political consensus. Declared U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton: "A government of national unity is good news for El Salvador. Democracy is at work...
...believe that the nation and the world are ready for a new Hula Hoop era." Venturing that brave prediction is Barry Shapiro, 39, executive vice president and general manager of the Wham-O Mfg. Co., the San Gabriel, Calif., toy and sporting-goods maker that introduced the hoop in 1958. During a slightly mad six-month period 25 years ago, as many as 120 million hoops were sold around the world. A 1967 version called the Shoop-Shoop Hula Hoop was filled with ballbearings to make a swishing sound. It briefly sparked renewed interest, but failed to reignite...
...akin to asking pigs how they feel about bacon. Still, it is rather surprising that the squeals of protest from those most likely to be affected by the slashes in social services have been so muted. "In the late 1960s, talk about reducing social services brought out marchers," says Gabriel Russo, commissioner of human services for New York's Monroe County. "I don't see anybody stirred up now." The utter confusion over the cuts, no doubt, is working to the Administration's advantage. Observes Roger Herr, chief of Iowa's financial assistance bureau: "There...
...TIME has obtained support for these charges, and more, from a far more reliable source: long-secret files of the Internal Revenue Service. In some 500 pages of reports to their superiors from 1972 to 1974, veteran IRS Agents John Daley and Gabriel Dennis of the service's Los Angeles office asserted...
...DIED. Gabriel Hauge, 67, eloquent, scholarly banker and top economic aide to President Dwight Eisenhower; of cancer; in Manhattan. The Minnesota-born economist taught at Harvard and Princeton before becoming a speechwriter in Eisenhower's 1952 presidential campaign. Less conservative than most of the President's advisers, he opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade and favored liberalized foreign trade policies...