Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PANAMA CITY, Panama--Churchgoers applauded nationwide yesterday as Roman Catholic clergy read a letter condemning fraud and violence in the national elections, a message that even was broadcast on state-run television...
...Iglesia del Carmen, in an affluent neighborhood of the capital, the congregation applauded for several minutes after the letter was read. Members of the congregation waved white paper, white handkerchiefs and Panamanian flags after the service...
...pastoral letter, issued Thursday by Archbishop Marcos McGrath and other bishops of the Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference of Panama, was read byCatholic clergy nation-wide and asked the DefenseForces not to use arms against "a defenselesspeople...
...shaving points, the rumor goes, and Spenser, the soft-centered hard-guy detective, soon discovers a grubbier scandal. Nobody at Taft will admit it, but the team's star power forward has been passed through his courses for nearly four years despite the fact that he can't read. Spenser is shocked -- he believes in truth, honor and grade-point averages -- and he sets out to discover which lizards, tenured and not, are responsible. The reader puts up his feet and gets comfortable. That's a bad sign. Too much comfort, too little doubt. In the early Spenser books, everyone...
...work. Again tens of thousands of workers joined them, shouting encouragement. One worker held up a sign in crude English letters: I LOVE YOU. A waitress scribbled a message on a piece of paper and pasted it on the window of a bus. "You must be exhausted, students," it read...