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...grudge match," Radcliffe's Nina Streeter said afterwards. "They're not quite as strong as they were last year, but we still wanted to beat them...
...Amnesty report has received overwhelming praise from other human rights groups. Says Nina Shea, program director for the International League for Human Rights in New York: "I find it to be eminently reliable, if not on the conservative side." Aryeh Neier, vice chairman of New York-based Americas Watch, agrees. "It's absolutely solid," he says. More surprising, the Reagan Administration, which often finds itself at odds with human rights groups, responded favorably. Although officials were disappointed that the report paid little attention to Cuba and Nicaragua, a State Department spokesman declared: "It documents this problem in impressive...
...merely nettle him. What really burns him up, he said, are the press portrayals of his late mother. "They're making her out to be some sort of religious nut, a kook. She was a normal, hardworking, Godfearing woman, and she gave us the best upbringing she could." Nina Hart, who died in 1972, was a member of the Church of the Nazarene. Some stories have depicted her as severe and neurasthenic and have dwelt on her habit of moving the family frequently. Hart noted emphatically that his family had been poor; fixing up and reselling modest houses...
...lower interest rates and much longer repayment periods. Last week's Argentina rescue bought some time, but it only postponed the day when bankers and governments will have to deal with the debt crisis in a more fundamental way. -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Gisela Bolts/Washington and Nina Lindley/Buenos Aires
...past month, reporters have been poking around Hart's old home town of Ottawa, Kans. Inevitably, perhaps, the trail has led to Hart's mother, who died in 1972. Nina Hartpence is portrayed by neighbors and relatives as strict and domineering. "We always had trouble getting Gary to come out and play," a childhood friend, Duane Hoobing, was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal last week. "He was lonely lots of times. His mother never let him get too involved with other kids." A devout member of the Church of the Nazarene, Mrs. Hartpence enforced...