Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together and enjoys wide support from the people." On Capitol Hill, the House Foreign Affairs Committee saluted the results by relaxing strings attached to $377.9 million in military and economic aid, $54.5 million less than what the Reagan Administration requested for El Salvador this year. Democrat Michael Barnes of Maryland, a leader in the demand for tough human rights restrictions on aid to El Salvador, termed the election results "a very positive development...
...Parkinson's researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), who joined the hunt to identify the deadly ingredient in samples of the drug obtained by police. Their task was made easier by an alert toxicologist at the county crime laboratory, who recalled the 1977 case of a Maryland graduate student who had developed Parkinson's symptoms after injecting himself with a home-brewed opiate. The student had been trying to produce MPPP, a substance similar to the pain-killer Demerol, but had accidentally created a related chemical called MPTP. Langston asked Stanford University Chemist Ian Irwin to test...
Dozens of states, cities, unions, and churches have divested their monies from South African holdings. This group includes Connecticut, Massachusetts, Boston, Maryland, New York, the United Auto Workers, Ohio University, Michigan State, Wesleyan the University of Massachusetts, and the Harvard Law Review. Taking a stand against Harvard's investment assumes primary importance now because it is only President Bok's personal campaign against divestment which has conferred any legitimacy at all on the untenable and fading proposition that universities should not care where these invest...
...Maryland 13, Harvard...
...outcome in the Senate depended on a small group of about a dozen fence sitters. Many of them, like Hawkins and Specter, reportedly did not decide until the last day. Four Republicans and three Democrats who voted against the missile last year switched positions. Maryland Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican, explained his switch on strategic grounds, expecially the MX's accuracy. Said he: "Without the MX we don't have a hard-target capability...