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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four days before the vote, one of Cardenas' strategists, Francisco Javier Ovando Hernandez, was shot to death in his car in the capital, along with Ovando's private secretary, Roman Gil Heraldez. Cardenas promptly denounced the killings as political assassinations. In an angry letter to President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, Cardenas warned that the "responsibility will be yours" for any acts of terrorism against the opposition. If the tragedy enhanced the messianic aura that surrounded Cardenas' campaign, it amounted to a disaster for Salinas. Though even Cardenas did not directly accuse the P.R.I. of complicity in the crime, many...
Call it the Vice-Presidential Clearinghouse. Michael Dukakis is casting such a wide net in his search for a running mate that any day now Democratic members of Congress may get a letter from Ed McMahon announcing, "Congratulations. You may already be a vice-presidential nominee...
Bradbury suggests that writers to whom the best-seller list and the movie sale are but distant dreams must become survivalists. As he says, there comes a time when the need for a pair or two of lamb's-wool socks and a typewriter with a functioning letter R on its keyboard will overwhelm high literary principle. When that happens, he implies, it is O.K. to respond favorably to the mail's more dubious propositions -- to adapt a classic for television, for example, or address an academic conference (especially if its venue is warm and equipped with Jacuzzis). He draws...
...letter sent to all 3700 clerical and technical workers late last week, Anne H. Taylor, who heads the University's anti-union efforts, called the election "unfair and invalid" and said HUCTW was not legally entitled to represent any Harvard employees...
Taylor wrote in the letter to employees that the NLRB decision confirms that Harvard's charges were made witha sound factual and legal basis...