Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World organization, they have always worked together throughout the years in presenting a united front in developing annual budgets, maintaining and expanding the Minority Admissions and Recruitment program in the face of cutbacks, and in working together on orientation and other activities. Admissions work has served as an important inter-cultural forum, cultivating mutual respect and strong working relationships between the respective Third World groups...
...said the new inter-school program will produce a "general course curriculum" for institutions that teach public administration, "allowing flexibility for differing requirements...
...someone following the Reagan camp so closely, the departure did not come as a complete sur prise," said Barrett. "Two weeks earlier you could detect a decided cooling of the Reagan-Sears relationship." Barrett therefore had a head start in investigating the shake-up and even managed to inter view William Casey before he was in stalled as Sears' successor. Barrett also found an opportunity to share some of his insights with a newcomer to the Reagan press corps. Just before the big formal an nouncement of the staff dismissals, Bar rett saw a familiar face in the press...
...results of the violent anti-Communist convulsion that swept the city were apparent in Kabul, cabled TIME'S Pearl Marshall, one of the few Western correspondents who managed to move freely in the capital. "Soviet infantrymen with Kalashnikov automatic rifles stand guard near the door of the Inter-Continental Hotel, where most Western journalists have been confined. Soviet tanks are still deployed near public buildings and key intersections. Other armored vehicles have effectively divided the city in two by blocking the bridges across the Kabul River. It is an apparent attempt to thwart any renewed threats of attack against...
Since then, he has served as Venezuelan Ambassador to both the United Nations and the U.S. and as chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. He has been particularly visible as president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States. In 1978 he headed a special team that investigated human rights violations in Nicaragua and issued a blistering attack on the Somoza regime. Another report is due soon on human rights violations in Argentina...