Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have declared their membership in El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front-There's Guillermo Ungo, a prominent Social Democrat, and member of the first (U.S. supported) junta. Colonel Adolfo Majano, a former military officer. Francisco Diaz, Alberto Arene, Hector Dada Hirezi, Ruben Zamora, Roberto Lara Velado, Oscar Menjivar, Julietta De Colinderes, all of them former leaders of the Christian Democratic Party. Undoubtedly there are some arms coming from Nicaragua, perhaps by way of Cuba and Moscow. Which only goes to prove that sometimes the worst governments are on the right side. And that America is a very hard enemy...
...executives of companies like Texas Instruments, Chevron, Phelps Dodge, Kimberly-Clark, Texaco and Crown Zellerbach. Any time in the last 40 years, some carefully applied American pressure might have spawned major reform. Probably anytime, that is, until March of last year, when a rightist gunman shot and killed Archbishop Oscar Romero as he celebrated Mass. Perhaps anytime until November 28 of last year, when six leaders of the Democratic Revolutionary Front were assassinated. Maybe, though probably not, even today. As the crisis deepened, more decisive action would have been necessary. Instead, the Carter administration fooled around at the edges, offering...
...Oscar Handlin, Adams University Professor, advocated U.S. intervention in countries threatened by communism and described citizen action against nuclear war as "useless and illusionary" at a Cambridge Forum last night...
...Finally Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor amd director of the University Library, may have found the perfect cure for the didn't-get-what-I-wanted-for-Christmas-blues. Asked what he wanted for Christmas this year, Handlin said, "I gave up being cute years...
...misanthropic garage owner in television's Chico and the Man and whose background included vaudeville, Broadway and films; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Albertson won two Emmys, a Tony for his 1964 Broadway role as the surly John Cleary in The Subject Was Roses and an Oscar for best supporting actor in the 1968 movie version of that play. Albertson played the soft-hearted Willie Clark in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys on Broadway, and appeared in such films as The Harder They Fall and Period of Adjustment...