Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several students--not necessarily Advocate staffers--take responsibility for putting together each edition. There are no appointed executives; the title "editor" is simply bestowed on those people in charge of a given issue...
...seminar for the first time adressed AIDS in a talk given by Marc Roberts, chairman of the Massachusetts State Research Council on AIDS...
...cause, however, was taken up by several prominent Americans, among them Secretary of State George Shultz; five months ago Feltsman and his family were abruptly given permission to leave. In short order, the State University of New York College at New Paltz handed Feltsman a teaching post at $80,000 a year, the powerful Columbia Artists agency lined up more than 50 engagements, and there was a concert at the White House. Almost as quickly as he had fallen into disfavor, Feltsman, 35, soared to international celebrity...
...Given the bad feelings between Reagan and Ortega, easy concessions are not expected. "These people are in a war of propaganda," says a Honduran , official. "Neither side wants to be the one to give in." Still, the debate over bilateral or multilateral talks is more than mere posturing. The Sandinistas, who know that renewed bilateral talks will lend their regime prestige, argue that until the U.S. forthrightly announces its support for the Guatemala plan, it is not entitled to participate in regional negotiations. "Why should we let Reagan take part?" asks Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...
...hiked the price of Snickers Bar from 25 to 35 cents. The source (whose name I cannot reveal by name but I'll just give you a hint: he is a Tailor who works at "Rosie's" on Wall Street near Naples and can't stop talking), has given me many other stories, as well...