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...same time, many of the basic trappings of 20th century life, such as electricity, gasoline, running water and postal services, are declining or vanishing. Since 1979, when the Marxist-oriented Sandinista regime ousted Dictator Anastasio Somoza, much of the country's economic and industrial infrastructure has fallen into ruin. Under Sandinista rule, Nicaragua's foreign debt has risen from $1.6 billion to $7 billion, while real wages have fallen by 90%. Inflation is estimated at 1,800% for 1987, and some economists believe it could surpass a stratospheric 10,000% this year...
Walsh lashed out at the liberal faction of city politics before the testimony. "An organized political union is trying to ruin me," he said, calling his term of office "26 months of a reign of terror." This "reign of terror," according to Walsh, included prank phone calls in the middle of the night, protesters surrounding his office and threats of having his house set on fire. "I'm going to sue the Cambridge Tenants' Union," he said...
...joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when CNN asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that a 24-hour news network had to be the last frontier...
This reviewer won't ruin what little suspense there is in this movie by revealing whether Kirstie is taken hostage by the kidnapper, and whether this enrages her boyfriend Tom Berenger and causes him to join Poitier in tracking down the criminal, and whether the fugitive makes it over the border to Canada, and whether it turns out to really make any difference when he does, but suffice it to say that every plot twist is strikingly implausible and obviously invented only to justify the next improbable twist...
Yesterday's Harvard-Boston College Beanpot consolation game provided a particularly egregious example of the way television can ruin a decent sporting event. Harvard lost, 4-2, to Boston College and neither team played particularly well. The stands were almost empty, save those few who trickled in early for the championship game between Boston University and Northeastern...