Word: georgetown
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...Dash, 57, chief counsel for Senate committee. Wrote profitable Watergate book Chief Counsel, lectured, still teaches at Georgetown University...
...research centers--including the CSIA--are not without their critics. Some of the more literal experts in the arms control field point to the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown as being an overly enthusiastic proponent of hard-line strategies. Martin Sherwin a visiting professor in Harvard's graduate American history program, divides research centers into two categories: those that criticize government policy constructively without trying to undermine it and those that make "too much of an effort to find creative uses for nuclear weapons...
...confrontation between Britain and Latin America will be the U.S." Panama President Aristides Royo has accused the U.S. of betraying its Latin neighbors by "changing hats and choosing sides when it should have remained neutral." Most U.S. experts take Latin America's anger seriously. Says Robert Leiken of Georgetown University: "This has struck a very deep nerve." The U.S. is viewed as tricky, sly and selling out its Latin friends...
...product has plunged about 20% since 1978, and analysts expect a further slide this year. The unemployment rate is approximately 30%. Two years of guerrilla warfare have nearly bankrupted the country and have destroyed tens of millions of dollars' worth of crops, roads, bridges and power stations. Says Georgetown University's Georges Fauriol: "The Administration will have a very hard time convincing any businessman who has to respond to his shareholders that investing in El Salvador is a good thing...
...cover of the Georgetown basketball brochure, the five graduating seniors on the team may look a little silly standing around a piano in warmups and mortarboards, but the coach does not think so. He keeps a deflated basketball on his desk back at school, symbolizing that the air can be let out of a basketball career any time. When the players arrived home, a message was waiting for Brown on a banner draped on a campus building...