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...film centers on Aldous Tate, a Harvard student in the 1960s who becomes a media celebrity by haranguing people with his leftist progressive ideology and 20 years later he meets Una Horn, played by Tamerlis, who has travelled to Latin America to distribute food and contraceptives to the poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Casting Call | 10/14/1983 | See Source »

...succession of events, controversies and polls narrow the focus of a crowded race. It may be artificial, but it's manna to the journalist who can't remember if he last talked to Flynnigan of Dikearney. Finnegan was the cagey. Irish pol. Flynn, the liberal "goo-goo". King, the leftist. Incidents become symbolic stories that don't connect," not proven patterns but isolated signals between the lines. Thus Finnegan took his desk home from his School Board office: read. he's a plunderer. Larry DiCara let an illegal loan slip in from an aide: He's no manager. Flynn gave...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Controlling the Fourth Estate | 10/12/1983 | See Source »

...active members of Mobilization for Survival, the parent group sponsoring. Nuclear Free Cambridge, would not object to being described as leftist holdovers from the '60s. In fact many of the group's earliest activities were collate stilted with the Anti-War Organizing League World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Sixties Holdovers' | 10/12/1983 | See Source »

...next year. The guerrillas, however, were still holding out for a settlement in which they would be given a share of power before having to participate in any elections. They also demanded that future meetings be held in El Salvador, a move that would give them added legitimacy. The leftist coalition predicted that talks would continue despite the present impasse, but Peace Commission members seemed to be pessimistic about the future of negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Aiming To Gain Ground | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...Secretary of State George Shultz emerged with what seemed to be a strong endorsement of one of the Administration's most hotly contested policies: providing aid to guerrilla opponents of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua as a means of checking that country's efforts to aid leftist insurgents in El Salvador. The proposal must now go before a far more hostile House of Representatives, but the Senators' warm response raised White House hopes that it would eventually be approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Lucky Catch | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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