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...Sandinistas' glad hand did not extend, however, to Radio Catolica, the religious station that was permitted to reopen last month after a 20-month hiatus. The government last week prohibited Radio Catolica from broadcasting news, saying it must first obtain requisite permits. The Sandinistas also suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...
When the Republicans returned to Washington in 1981 after a four-year hiatus, so too did Luce, resuming her position on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Throughout her last years, the elder stateswoman held court among young Republicans as a kind of inspirational eminence, an unmistakable figure at every conservative function, silver-haired, bright- eyed, dripping pearls and epigrams. Of all the laurels bestowed upon her in recent years, perhaps the most fitting was the Sylvanus Thayer Award, West Point's highest civilian honor, given to those who best embody the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country...
Violence also caused a two-year hiatus in football competition between Harvard and Yale during...
...mere fact that Parker took his crew to San Diego is an indication of just how strong a crew he feels he has. He doesn't take teams he doesn't think can win, and the heavies hadn't made the trip in three years. That hiatus includes the 1985 Crimson, a crew which eventually won the national championship and the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in England...
...after a four-years hiatus, the rivalry was renewed last year when the Spartans and Golden Gophers met in the NCAA tournament for the first time ever...