Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beyond mere entertainment, organizers said. "We are hoping for better representation from the Asian and Portuguese communities," said DeLancey. "We want a well-rounded group present so that it can be the cross-cultural festival it is intended to be." To improve attendance UNICEF has advertised the party in local papers...
...Local companies and individuals donated food, books, and Harvard donated the space for the event. There is a $6 entrance fee, which may be discounted for those who cannot afford to pay. All proceeds from the party will benefit UNICEF, but organizers have said that there is usually only minimal profit from the event...
...swallowed up Gary Hart. Cisneros confessed, in an off-the-record interview with columnist Paul Thompson, published by the San Antonio Express-News, that he has been entangled in a two-year love affair with a 39-year-old married campaign worker, Linda Medlar. Said Medlar, wife of a local jeweler, in the same article: "He's the love of my life . . . We hope to be able to live out the rest of our lives together." The mayor had admitted unspecified marital "difficulties" in his 19-year marriage to high school sweetheart Mary Alice. They have three children, including...
Under Gorbachev, the Kremlin has displayed a willingness to devolve more responsibility to local authorities. Visiting the region in August, Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev declared that "the national factor should become one more motive force of perestroika." Nowhere has Moscow's apparent about- face in the Baltics been more evident than in the guardedly favorable recognition given the popular fronts. When the Estonians held an organizational congress in Tallinn two weeks ago, Communist Party First Secretary Vaino Valjas brought greetings from Gorbachev. At the end of a similar conference in Riga last week, Latvian party leader Janis Vagris stressed that...
Marju Lauristin, an Estonian activist, has suggested that the Popular Front was born out of the "alienation" many Estonians feel toward existing social and political organizations. The popular front movements have certainly reinvigorated public debate in the Baltics, inspiring proposals for everything from local convertible currencies and free economic zones to the establishment of independent relations with foreign countries. If such dreams and hopes result in nothing but more empty words, the return of old frustrations will be all the more bitter...