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That stung the Sandinista leadership. It was a prescient observation. One of the government's first steps was to move in on a new church-sponsored group called the Justice and Peace Commission, whose aim was to defend human rights. Marta Patricia Baltodano, a lawyer and longtime human rights activist who helped organize the commission, asserts that she learned of a Sandinista plan to discredit her by forcing an accuser to claim falsely that she had engaged in sexual relations with a priest. Baltodano fled to exile in Costa Rica last December. "We realized we were not going...
That statement proved prescient. After the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, Americans read in a TIME cover story about MacArthur's triumphant 1944 return and the battle of Leyte Gulf. The Philippines finally gained full independence in July 1946. As a cover story on the occasion observed, President Manuel Roxas took over a war-shattered country with "no national economy, no export trade. Next to Warsaw, Manila is the world's most devastated city." Two decades later, in a laudatory account of President Marcos' efforts to beef up the Philippine economy, stave off the Communist...
...protest today--thousands of students and workers--because Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us, "Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere." We assemble on the 17th anniversary of Dr. King's death to honor his prescient insistence that American business leave South Africa and to call forth the power of his faith and vision and courage in a movement to end a policy which implicates all of us in savagery and shameful actions, a policy that spills blood in our name...
DIED. Eugenia Sheppard, 851sh, society and fashion columnist for more than 40 years, whose breezy style, almost prescient eye for trends and emphasis on the people who create and wear clothes revolutionized fashion reporting in the 1950s and '60s, when her column in the New York Herald Tribune and some 80 other papers made her a power in the design business; of cancer; in New York City...
Amid much blathering commentary that night, NBC's John Chancellor was both candid and prescient: "In my judgment, the President got very tired at the end. He seemed quite disorganized in his closing remarks." The public felt that way too about the first debate. The widespread distress at Reagan's lackluster performance shook the press from its initial timid opinion that Mondale had won a narrow victory on "the debating points...