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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jailed for counterrevolutionary activities and invited some 70,000 Indians who had been driven by the government from their long-held tribal lands to return. "We recognize that we've committed arbitrary acts against Nicaraguans of Miskito origin," said Minister of the Interior Tdmas Borge Martinez in a rare apology. Sandinista officials have for months privately confessed their gross mishandling of the Miskito issue. Borge also met with editors of the daily La Prensa and promised that its criticism of the Sandinista government would not be censored, as it has been in the past. The government even gave...
...soon wore thin. Some viewed the episode as a rare example of hubris from Baker and an embarrassment to President Reagan, who learned that he might lose his aide from the morning newspaper. Said Reagan: "I was as surprised as anyone to read that." Baker later told the President that he had not received a formal offer from the team owners and that he regretted that the story had leaked. The two men agreed to discuss the matter further this week...
...effacing veteran newsman told NBC Chairman Grant Tinker that he wanted to return to what he loves most and does best: producing news shows. His wish was granted on his 63rd birthday last week. Aside from the fact that the changing of the guard happened quietly and smoothly, a rare occurrence at any network headquarters, the biggest surprise was the man chosen as Frank's replacement: Lawrence Grossman, 52, president of the Public Broad casting Service (PBS) since...
...uncompromising aesthetic also places great demands on the listener. But if, as Mark Twain supposedly said, Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds, Messiaen's opera is not as formidable as it seems. Saint François d'Assose is a rare spiritual testament and deserves a wider hearing, perhaps in the concert hall or on records...
Fortune ought to smile on the career of A.N. Wilson. He is one of a fairly rare literary species: a writer of social comedies. He is also prolific-Wise Virgin, his first book to be published in this country, is his sixth novel-and very good. Not for him the extravagant mythmaking of his contemporary Salman Rushdie or the chilly experiments of Ian McEwan. Stylistically, Wilson is headed straight into the past, when a novelist told a suspenseful story and commanded his characters' souls. He can be flippant and overly mordant, but his lively wit and fine sense...