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...They bumped me out the day before study cards were due," said Debbie Ramirez '86, who applied for Lit and Arts B-22 and was rejected along with 170 others. "Now I have to take a course I'm not excited by, just because it fits my schedule," she said...
...system, says its unflappable designer, Tom Nicholson of the New York City exhibition firm of Ramirez and Woods, "personalizes" information. Determined to avoid an intimidating computer keyboard, he employed a "user-friendly," touch-sensitive screen. Pressure on the screen tells the computer to retrieve the information stored on the videodisc corresponding to the word or symbol touched. Although the computer makes the system truly responsive, what makes its applications so exciting is the versatility of the videodisc. And you thought the disc was the Edsel of video technology...
...series of meetings with Nicaraguan and Cuban leaders. In so doing, he allowed the Sandinistas to call Haig's hand. "We have never accepted the U.S. charge of an arms flow through here, but that does not mean we are unwilling to discuss the point," said Sergio Ramirez Mercado, a member of Nicaragua's three-man junta. Nicaragua also called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council so that it could present its case. The Administration, whose sincerity about desiring a negotiated accommodation with the Sandinistas has been in some doubt, found itself diplomatically cornered...
...slide presentation did provide unmistakable evidence of a military buildup that Nicaragua's leaders have hitherto minimized. Nonetheless, Sandinista leaders were quick to dispute many of the charges. "There is not a single foreign soldier in Nicaragua," insisted Sergio Ramirez, a member of the country's three-man ruling junta. "How could we hide 2,000 Cuban soldiers in a country this size?" Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock, who was in the U.S. for his own publicity offensive, called the Hughes briefing, a bit redundantly, a case of "excessive hysteria"; he noted that the airport expansion program was actually...
...banning strikes, profiteering and the distribution of news or information deemed to be injurious to the economy. The regime was also worried about a possible counterinsurgency led by supporters of the deposed Somoza and other anti-Sandinista groups. Meanwhile, the government increased its attacks on COSEP. Junta Member Sergio Ramirez charged that the organization espoused "a systematic defense of the most primitive type of capitalism, which tries to paralyze the revolution, to resuscitate forces which hinder the revolutionary process...