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Although none of the councillors questioned Healy's record of achievement, Sullivan questioned a provision in the new contract which would allow the city manager to collect a $70,000 salary and benefits for the duration of his term--even if the city council dismissed him before the pact runs...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Top Cambridge Administrator Awarded Five-Year Contract | 1/8/1985 | See Source »

...Jesus expelled Fernando Cardenal Martinez when the priest refused to resign as Nicaragua's Education Minister. Jesuit officials in Rome cited a 1983 canon law that forbids priests to hold posts that carry civil powers. In a 19-page open letter, Cardenal defended his job as a "pact with the poor." There was no word from the Vatican on the three other priests in the Nicaraguan government, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Support Your Local Guerrillas | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...Nobel laureate in literature, Czech Poet Jaroslav Seifert, 83, was little known outside his homeland. For Czechs, it was a recognition that was overdue: he has long been revered for his insistence on artistic freedom. Even during the bleak days after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces, Seifert spoke out forcefully against the policies of the new Soviet-installed regime. For the next decade his writings were repressed, although his poetry is essentially unpolitical. Communist authorities finally relented when they realized that Seifert's poems were circulating widely in underground journals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: A Poet Speaks of Art and Liberty | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Terms of Kush's contract with the Outlaws were not revealed, but the Indianapolis News reported that sources with the Colts indicated Kush will receive $1 million in the five-year pact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

...recognize the foundation as a fertile source of intellectual support, putting about two dozen Heritage staffers on transition teams in 1980. After a Heritage study concluded that the United Nations' law of the sea treaty ran against U.S. interests, the President canceled U.S. plans to approve the pact, which has been signed by more than 125 nations. When Foundation Scholar Stuart Butler adapted a British notion in a proposal for inner-city enterprise zones, both Reagan and Conservative Congressman Jack Kemp enthusiastically backed the idea. The Administration also accepted Heritage recommendations favoring the accelerated leasing of federal lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thunder on the Right | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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