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...Ronald Reagan, it was a time to savor a triumph, not indulge in nagging second thoughts. At an intimate Georgetown dinner party for the President, guests took turns heartily congratulating him for the bold midair interception of the four Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. In Boise, admiring supporters erupted in cheers as Reagan declared he was "most proud" of the U.S. Navy F-14 pilots who were able to pinpoint their EgyptAir Boeing 737 target in the Mediterranean darkness and, as he put it puckishly, "persuade" it to land in Italy. His declaration that "there...
...departure of the wiry, chain-smoking D'Aubuisson was announced at the annual party congress in San Salvador. It was engineered, according to one ARENA loyalist, by party leaders anxious to project a "more palatable image." D'Aubuisson was replaced by Alfredo Cristiani, a 37-year-old graduate of Georgetown University's business school who has held prominent posts in El Salvador's coffee and cotton growers' associations...
Other professors agree. "If I were to ask most of my colleagues in the corridors [about Harvard], they would consider who's there in certain fields. About one in 15 would probably mention the sexual harassment," says R. Bruce Douglas, chairman of Georgetown's government department...
...last week of 372 to the U.S. dollar). Yet now, on top of such belt tightening, Mexico City and four coastal states need major reconstruction programs that will consume already tight reserves of capital. "It is a tremendous psychological blow," says M. Delal Baer, an expert on Mexico at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "You begin to feel that the gods are conspiring against Mexico...
Already one of the most intimidating players in basketball, former Georgetown Center Patrick Ewing last week took a giant step toward becoming one of the richest. The Jamaican-born 7-footer ended months of negotiations with the New York Knicks, signing a contract with the National Basketball Association club that calls for a $1.7 million paycheck in 1985 and up to $30 million over the next ten years. The deal makes him the highest-paid rookie in nba history. Ewing, 23, who averaged 14.6 points and 9.6 rebounds for the Hoyas last season, appeared to remain above the media furor...