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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peace Corps activities. She says that during a two-hour tour of the night spots of Kinshasa, Zaire's capital city, Savage fondled her in his chauffeur-driven car and asked for sex. "He kept saying, 'That's the way the world works,' " she told the Washington Post. The woman says she escaped Savage's advances when an embassy worker intervened. The next day U.S. Ambassador William Harrop rebuked Savage, and soon afterward the volunteer was sent back to the U.S. for counseling...
...Argentina the post of Economic Minister has become almost as star-crossed as the hyperinflated economy. The previous officeholder, Miguel Roig, 68, died July 14, just six days after he joined the Cabinet of incoming President Carlos Saul Menem. Roig's successor, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, 60, had been on the job only three days last week when newspaper reports disclosed that a judge in Venezuela had put out a warrant for his arrest in connection with a $6 billion trade-fraud scheme...
Timothy A. Bonang will become Harvard's newest assistant sports information director (SID) August 1, after being named to the post Tuesday, SID John Veneziano said...
...America treats those it deems to be villains. Newspapers and late-night comics had a field day with early press reports depicting a boozy Hazelwood leaving the bridge of the 987-ft. tanker and turning control over to an unqualified mate. SKIPPER WAS DRUNK, screamed the New York Post. "I was just trying to scrape some ice off the reef for my margarita," chortled comedian David Letterman, suggesting one of Hazelwood's "Top Ten Excuses" for the spill...
...last spring, when an internal investigation jump-started the story. The entire episode says a great deal about shortcomings in the way the press covers Government. "Somebody, an editor or a reporter, should have said, 'Where is the money going?' " says Bob Woodward, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post...