Word: renee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rene Hernandez, U.S. representative of the General Association of Salvadoran University Students (AGEUS), criticized President Jose Napoleon Duarte's government for using the military and "death squads" to stifle political debate throughout the country...
...provocative argument: longer is not better. But Americans have shied off from similar points made in recent years. When former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm spoke out in 1984 about the terminally ill's "duty to die," his forthrightness seemed eccentric. In his writing, the late Dr. Rene Dubos urged more emphasis on the quality rather than the length of life, but his eloquence failed to generate sustained debate. Callahan, arguably the nation's leading medical ethicist, means to make discussion of the subject inescapable. For 18 years, as director of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., he has grappled...
...Quebec, whose 6.5 million residents comprise nearly a quarter of all Canadians, could not hope to stand alone either politically or economically. Quebec voters said non to separation in a 1980 referendum. They repeated the message two years ago by turning against the nationalist Parti Quebecois long led by Rene Levesque and overwhelmingly electing a Liberal government headed by Robert Bourassa, 54, the same man they had ousted from office...
...letter, which was typewritten, continued to say that its writer, Rene Wisecarver of Laceyville, Pa., did not know much about Bork, but she wanted to know "what constitutes your personal code...
Despite the heartening Parkinson's results reported in Rochester, doctors at the symposium were cautious. "In my mind, there is no question that the patients get better," said Dr. Rene Drucker-Colin, a leader of the transplant team at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City. "The real question is: For how long will they get better? Obviously, if the answer is six months, it would be less important to do this operation." Admitted Dr. George Allen, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Vanderbilt, where twelve more operations are planned later this year: "This is still very much...