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...announcement was certainly a quick way for the President to steal the spotlight from the expatriate rebel leaders who returned to El Salvador. Three days before Duarte's announcement, Ruben Zamora Rivas, vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, returned from exile in Nicaragua to be greeted by a small but fervent group of supporters. Mocking Duarte's embrace of the American flag during his last trip to Washington, Zamora kissed the flag of El Salvador when he arrived. "This is all the amnesty I will need," he declared...
...years, but the group's poverty rate is edging downward (from 13.9% in 1978 to 12.4% last year). One type of means test would cut off benefits for recipients above a certain income level. "There's a big distinction between entitlements for poor people and entitlements for everybody," says Ruben Mettler, chairman of TRW. Another suggested method to get entitlement costs under control would be to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment from 100% of the consumer price index...
...stereotype of Asian Americans as narrow mathematical paragons is unfair, however, and inaccurate. Many are far from being liberal arts illiterates, according to a study that will be published this fall by Sociologists Ruben G. Rumbaut and Kenji Ima of San Diego State University. They found that in overall grade-point averages, virtually every Asian-American group outscored the city's white high school juniors and seniors. Many Asian-American students excel in the arts, from photography to music. New York City's famed Juilliard School has a student body estimated to be 25% Asian and Asian American. Juilliard President...
...thriller, the stairs leading from living room to bedroom are littered with bloody archetypes: mom at the bottom, stepdad at the top, daughter in between poised to destroy the black widower. Donald E. Westlake based his sleek script on the case of a New Jersey serial killer. Director Joseph Ruben brings his no-nonsense classicism to what could have been just another tabloid horror story. And Schoelen is the most appealing teen in recent movies. But the triumph is O'Quinn's. With his a- mite-too-wide smile, unctuous pieties and neatly calibrated spasms of rage, he creates...
Phoenix Police Chief Ruben Ortega announced the indictments, which were returned Thursday. He said at a news conference that the indictments came after a two-month investigation by the police special investigations bureau and "the investigation still is ongoing...