Word: one
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the tension, the scene became like something from a TV situation comedy, with the rebels enjoying a feast of hotel food and the U.S. soldiers resolutely glowering from behind their barricades. Neither side made an attempt to threaten the other. It was, said one of the advisers, a "Mexican standoff," during which they talked to the rebels periodically. "At times it was friendly, at times tense," said another American. Finally, the Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Gregorio Rosa Chavez, mediated the release of the occupants of the hotel and the escape of the rebels. The U.S. soldiers, though, refused...
...investigation into the killing of the six Jesuits. It has become harder to avoid the conclusion that only the army or the police could have carried out the murders. Witnesses have told of seeing as many as 30 men in olive-drab uniforms enter the priests' residence, and one woman said she heard a voice over a shortwave radio say, "We've done it." At week's end the woman had been escorted out of the country by embassy officials and flown to the U.S. The murders were also carried out during the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, when...
...code would outlaw all outside earned income, including honorariums, for decision-making officials. Former officials could not lobby city departments for one year after leaving the payroll, and would be permanently barred from acting as lobbyists or advocates on matters directly related to their government employment. Candidates for city office would be forbidden to raise campaign funds until nine months before an election, and partial public funding would be available for hopefuls who agreed to spending limits...
...wonder whether many Angelenos, faced with relatively low city wages and the prospect of having to reveal their most intimate financial affairs, won't avoid public service if the code goes into effect. Says Michael Harmon, a professor of public administration at George Washington University: "The implicit message is one of distrust...
...walks into a Moscow bar and orders a beer. "One ruble," says the bartender. "What?" the man protests. "Last week it cost only 50 kopecks...