Word: marti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear Marti Brewer tell it, the fact that she made it into the college she wanted is a small miracle. Although a good student, she decided she needed a special summer course to improve her chances. But the counseling office at her high school in Fayetteville, Ark., bungled the course application by reporting the wrong SAT scores. Fortunately she caught the mistake in time. Looking back on her experience from the safety of Rice University, the freshman-in-spite- of- it-all sighs, "Counselors are overwhelmed with duties. They don't know how to help...
...President has come up against some hard realities. The war between the government and the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) has taken more than 60,000 lives and dragged to a stalemate. Salvadoran soldiers have improved, thanks to U.S. training, but they are unable to defeat the guerrillas. When Duarte struck a deal with the rebels for the release of his kidnaped daughter in October 1985, his relations with some top officers suffered. Last October an earthquake devastated much of San Salvador, inflicting more than $1 billion in damages and compounding the country's economic woes...
...rest of the racquetwomen shut out the visitors 3-0, except for Marti Winnick, who gave up a game to Nan Campbell at number three...
Diana Edge, Ingrid Boyum, and Marti Winnick made up the Harvard trio that journeyed to New Jersey. Edge won the tourney's title with a 3-0 defeat of Trinity's Eli Pearce...
...Duarte Duran, 35, the daughter of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in San Salvador on Sept. 10. "I'm fine, I'm fine, Papa," the woman said, explaining that she was a prisoner of the Pedro Pablo Castillo Command of the antigovernment Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...