Word: letterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sarney fell far short of his goal. Just days before Our Nature was announced, a group of 28 Latin American intellectuals, none of them Brazilian, issued a stinging open letter to Sarney accusing him of a "policy of ecocide and ethnocide" in the Amazon. The statement called for an immediate halt to "massive deforestation" and other "acts of barbarism." Among the signers were three prominent novelists: Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru...
According to the document, Reagan had urged the Hondurans to continue helping the contras in a letter to Suazo one month before Bush's visit. The U.S. "conditions" for giving some $110 million in aid were considered so sensitive that a secret emissary was sent to brief the Honduran President orally on them. The quid pro quo had been approved that same month at a meeting of a special interagency crisis-planning group headed by Bush, although it was not clear whether he led this key meeting. At the time, the Boland amendment was in effect, banning lethal help...
...know what "we are going to do about this." The next day the school received a bomb threat, which turned out to be a hoax. Then, when Rogers did not receive her contract renewal on the same day as other faculty members, she fired off an angry letter to the parents of her students, saying she did not pose a risk to the children's safety. She was later barred from the campus but continues to collect her paychecks and to assist a substitute teacher with lesson plans. Many San Diegans, angered by the way Rogers was treated, accused...
Gregg, who Gilbert said "became unreachable when the whole thing started to explode," wrote a letter to The Crimson last fall, denying allegations of embezzlement...
...like to think of them as the future public relations flaks and society fundraisers of America. They are the "300 classmates who have volunteered to work on the Senior Gift campaign," as a xeroxed letter from my Senior Gift Co-Chairpersons so nicely said...