Word: mexico
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...Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
Vacation Watch: Law School professors were southward-bound this month. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, who headed the faculty dean search committee, was sunning in Mexico when the appointment of Professor of Law Robert C. Clark was revealed. This month, Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell is in his third week of a Jamaican holiday...
...when he was eight. At San Jose State young Edwards starred in basketball. But the trappings of racism he found in fraternities, student housing, the faculty and staff radicalized him. By 1967 he was a Black Panther urging fellow black athletes to boycott white-sponsored events, including the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At Cornell, where he earned a doctorate, Edwards was a mediator in an armed ) revolt by blacks on campus. Now a sports sociology professor at University of California, Berkeley, and a consultant to the San Francisco 49ers, Golden State Warriors and Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, Edwards is challenging...
...figure in the lawmakers' investigation is Peter MacDonald, 60, Chairman of the Navajo nation, whose reservation encompasses 17 million acres in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Raised to be a medicine man, MacDonald went on to become a successful aerospace engineer. In the 1960s he gave up a lucrative job to return to his people and help manage their finances. It turns out, investigators say, that he managed only too well...
Unprecedented as they were, the talks between El Salvador's rebels and its political parties, including the ultra-right ARENA, ended near Mexico City last week without a breakthrough. Yet in offering to lay down their arms and join "the political life of the country" in exchange for military reforms and a six-month delay in the presidential elections scheduled for March 19, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) clearly scored a coup. By advancing a negotiable proposal, the rebels managed to put the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government -- and especially the army -- on the defensive...