Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political and military analysts are increasingly pessimistic about the corrosive psychological effects of the drawn-out fighting on the armed forces that buttress the civilian-military government of Christian Democrat President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Said a senior U.S. military analyst: "We are trying our damnedest to keep this enthusiasm up. That's why we sent those helicopters in so quickly." Warned a high-ranking U.S. specialist on Central America: "The momentum has gone, and we are within inches of losing control over the situation entirely...
Pointedly, Duarte had nothing to say at that time about another, earlier presidential address in nearby Nicaragua. There, Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo delivered a variation on his government's view that the U.S. should abandon its current policy in El Salvador in favor of recommending negotiations between all interested parties, a position favored by the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church (see box). At week's end, Duarte finally dismissed Lopez Portillo's suggestion as "utopian...
Sometimes a company's backers insist on professional management from the start. David Lee, 44, of San Jose, invented a high-speed printing system, known as the daisy wheel, which is now widely used in office machines. In 1973, when he started his own firm, Qume, in Silicon Valley, he and his backers agreed that an outsider should be head of the organization. Robert Schroeder, a Harvard M.B.A., then came in to run the company...
...campaign went on for months, complete with professional organizers, phone banks, rallies, mountains of leaflets and handouts, plus a blizzard of ballots. Recalls San Jose State Basketball Coach Bill Berry: "For weeks, when you saw people all they said was, 'Did you vote? Did you vote...
...State was fertile ground for organizing. Unlike the prestigious University of California system, an academic powerhouse of nine branches, including Berkeley and U.C.L.A., Cal State evolved as a collection of teacher colleges in such cities as San Jose, Chico and Fresno. Partly because it emphasizes teaching instead of research, Cal State has been treated as a second-class organization. Money and a slight inferiority complex have not been its only problems. At a time when job security is poor and tenure is an impossible dream to many young academics all over the country...