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...wounded. "He could have displayed more humanity and reached out to the people." But government officials remained firm. Jorge Blanco has instructed some of his party members to begin negotiations with unions for salary raises for workers, in hopes of averting further riots. Undoubtedly he wants to avoid a repeat of the uprising that occurred 19 years ago last week, which was also sparked in part by opposition to IMF measures. In that incident, President Lyndon Johnson sent in 27,000 U.S. troops to avert "another Cuba." Ironically, Jorge Blanco and his party led that revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: A Hungry Mob | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Porterfield then moved from seven on the varsity into the seventh seat of the j.v. boat. There though, she couldn't repeat her luck, as the Elis walloped Radcliffe...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Radcliffe Heavies Down Yale As Lightweights Demolish UNH | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...only about one family in six can qualify for a mortgage. Says Ken Kerin, vice president for economics and research of the National Association of Realtors: "Our greatest fear is another notch up in mortgage rates. If they go up another three-quarters of a percentage point, we could repeat the experience of 1981 and 1982 and end up with a housing crunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Shelter | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...with the original Laocoon, a citizen of Troy who felt that various natural phenomena promised doom, Tuchman goes on to find modern-day Laocoons. John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. and McGeorge Bundy. Moreover, each instance of folly described by Tuchman builds on the one before it: modern leaders repeat--and expand--the mistakes of their predecessors...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: To Err is Human | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...which he worked as a reporter for four years, former colleagues say that Winans once pirated details from other reporters' notes and used them to write a freelance article that he then sold to the New York Times. He was reprimanded by a Trentonian editor and did not repeat the practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talk of the Money World | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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