Word: marta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Educational reform should not come about inthis paternalistic approach," said Marta Rosa,president of the Chelsea Commission on HispanicAffairs and a candidate for the area's schoolcommittee. "If it's being called a partnership,then let's be partners...
...neatly typed letter to Mayor Marta Gomez de Melendez opened with a cordial greeting. But there was no mistaking it for fan mail. The message from the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) informed the mayor of Cojutepeque that she was obstructing El Salvador's revolution and gave her a choice: resign within 72 hours or face "popular justice." Gomez, a normally outspoken member of the right-wing ARENA party, knew exactly what * the last phrase meant. In the past year, eight mayors who ignored similar F.M.L.N. invitations to quit had been "executed," as the rebels call their...
...admire. This year the ten students who took part in the project picked, among others, a city official, a sports star -- and one U.S. President. After choosing Reagan last winter, Parmelee was astonished when his interview was granted. His article on the President, including pictures by Odyssey Student Photographer Marta Effinger, will appear in Looking for Heroes, the Odyssey Project magazine...
...vote does not mean we will stop," said Marta Sacasa, spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan Resistance, the umbrella group known as the contras. She said contra leaders would "reassess possible strategies" but added, "there's no way a U.S. vote is going to change our determination or will. We will just have to do without...
...contras, meanwhile, were feeling the heat for three alleged kidnapings. Two Nicaraguan clergymen, released last week after an eleven-day captivity, charged that the rebels had threatened to kill them. Witness for Peace, a U.S. human rights group, charged that a volunteer, Paul Fisher, had been abducted. Rebel Spokeswoman Marta Sacasa said that all three men had been detained for their own protection and promised that Fisher would be released "as soon as there are secure circumstances...