Word: general
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN MORE THAN 130 years since Cornelius Vanderbilt purchased exclusive right of way across the narrow strip of land that separates Atlantic and Pacific in Nicaragua. It has been 46 years since General Anastasio Somoza Garcia took control of the Nicaraguan National Guard from the United States Marines and promptly ordered the murder of nationalist hero Augusto Sandino. And it has been several months now since the front pages of America's newspapers sported gory tales of the thousands of civilian deaths that the same National Guard caused in the wake of the massive but unsuccessful popular uprising that racked...
...victims range from the scores of young men who have been picked up by the Guard only to turn up lifeless on some roadside the next morning, to the five children who tried two weeks ago to stage a hunger strike in support of the opposition to General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the President and dictator, to the guy from Cedar Rapids who taught at the American school in Managua and was killed last weekend...
...worrying is over now for many of the University's 42 Iranian students--at least for a little while. "There's no general policy that everyone is going to get paid for," Jennifer Stevens, director of the International Office, said yesterday, but, the University will postpone payment deadlines and may assist students with loans and other kinds of aid while Iranian students wait for funds...
...University decided to take action to help Iranian students eight weeks ago. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University put the problem in the hands of the International Office, who found that a good many" of Iranian students were indeed having trouble paying bills...
...that "professors are simply better scholars." However, professors and the University have long ago set priorities that prevent student exploitation of these Faculty skills. Robert N. Brandon, a graduate student who taught Philosophy tutorial three years ago, said the problem partially arose from "faculty members' disinterest in teaching in general, because this is a major research university." Brandon added gently, "It is not that they don't like teaching so much. They just like other things better...