Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study sparked a stinging exchange between Rukeyser and Financial Columnist Dan Dorfman, who wrote about the study in a Jan. 14 New York magazine column. Said Dorfman: "Here's a surefire way to lose a buck--and fast." Dorfman's column suggests that Rukeyser tends to select guests whose ideas are already in vogue on Wall Street. By the time the experts appear on the show, their favored stocks may have nearly crested...
...only pressure for future negotiations comes from Zamora's fellow rebel leaders, who say that on Jan. 11 they met privately with members of the San Salvador Episcopal Conference and presented a proposal for holding a third round of discussions before the March elections. At a press conference in San Salvador last Thursday, however, Duarte rejected what he called the "tactical dialogue" that the guerrillas are using "to seek publicity." At the same time, he insisted that he is "disposed to do anything for the sake of peace in Central America...
...routine surveillance aroused suspicions about some officials, intelligence officers met with Rajiv and informed him they had evidence against some employees in his own secretariat. He told them in effect to let the chips fall where they might. In raids on the homes and offices of the suspects on Jan. 18, agents turned up what one report described as "trunkloads" of copied documents...
...listeners were participating in the March for Life, held each Jan. 22 to mark the Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Some 70,000 people turned out, the largest number to date and double the size of last year's rally. For the first time, the protest included acts of civil disobedience: 28 people were arrested for picketing without a permit on the steps of the Supreme Court...
Even though Chernenko's health probably caused the last-minute postponement of a Warsaw Pact summit meeting earlier this month, the Soviet press worked hard at creating the illusion that the President was at his desk in the Kremlin. With TV cameras recording the event on Jan. 19, party officials nominated him in his absence for a seat on the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic, a post of no significance. They released statements in Chernenko's name congratulating Syrian President Hafez Assad on his re-election as head of his country's ruling Baath Party, and greeting a Moscow...