Word: rita
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...last week brought a frightening reminder of what every journalist in El Salvador knows beneath the bravado: that danger is more than barroom folklore. Four Dutch TV newsmen set out to film rebel encampments near the dusty village of Santa Rita in northern Chalatenango Department. They arrived to meet guerrilla contacts at 5 p.m. Ten minutes later, villagers heard prolonged shooting. Eight people died. The four Dutchmen were shot repeatedly at close range, and their bodies were quickly removed to the capital by Salvadoran soldiers. The army claimed that they died in a firefight, but most reporters suspected that instead...
...Rita R. Rogers, chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Task Force on the Psychosocial Impact of Nuclear Advances, agrees. The task force's survey research found that the most common response to questions about nuclear war was "nothing." We have "no emotional platform on which to place these issues." Rogers argues. "The issues are too big for our participation...
Harvard battered B.C goalie Rita McGuirk with 51 shots, evidence that coach John Dooley's reorganization of the team's forward lines last week has succeeded in delivering more offense...
MARS by Fritz Zorn Afterword by Adolf Muschg Translated by Robert and Rita Kimber Knopf; 241 pages...
...very pleased spectator was Rita Harder, coach Dooley's predecessor. Though a Brown alum, she didn't seem to mind the drubbing the Crimson gave her alma mater. "There's good depth on all three lines," she said, adding, "They're playing with a lot more confidence this year, having won more games early in the season...