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...like her had not worked so hard for so long, he would not have been up there on the podium, accepting the nomination of their party. Laughing with delight at one moment, eyes brimming with tears the next, Diana Evans, 52, an iffervescent housewife and mother of three from Salem, Ore., watched her dreams come true last week in Joe Louis Arena. Said she: "We're going to win. We're going to win. You better believe...
...after moving to Salem, she became state-wide county coordinator. Soon she was flying across the state with the candidate. Not only did she help win him 48% of the primary vote in the state, but she got to go to the G.O.P. Convention in Kansas City as part of the Oregon delegation: 14 members for Reagan, 16 for Ford...
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY was founded in the 1630s, the town of Salem offered hundreds of beachfront acres for a campus. Harvard's founders, who liked the atmosphere of this city, chose instead to settle in Cambridge. In a few years, the University may wish it had built on sand...
...honorific, since state boards of education issue their own, often easygoing approval for teacher-training programs. Nevertheless, with an awakened interest in "consumer protection" for parents and pupils, the council denied accreditation to teacher-training programs at 31% of colleges reviewed in 1979, compared with 10% in 1973. Says Salem, Ore., School Superintendent William Kendrick: "For too long, we've believed that if you hold a teaching certificate...
...doctrinaire Marxist, Ismail seized power in mid-1978 as head of a triumvirate that overthrew (and executed) President Salem Robaye Ali for "laxism toward reactionary states." Ismail strengthened his country's ties with Moscow and last year signed a friendship treaty with the U.S.S.R. Soviet arms and experts poured into South Yemen, raising the specter of a Soviet-run military base near the oilfields and shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf. Ismail proved to be such a loyal friend of Moscow's that he was the only Arab head of state to endorse openly the Soviet invasion...