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...Salvador E. Luria, a Nobel laureate and institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said yesterday he is circulating a letter at several universities--including Harvard--calling on professors not to perform administrative courtesies for B.U. until it drops charges against the professors...
Sometimes Kucinich can sound like a stereotyped left-intellectual: in his Playboy interview he drops allusions to 1984, Ghandi, Prometheus Unbound, Salvador Dali and Woody Allen. But Kucinich grew up in a large Catholic family in the inner city. His father is a truck driver who quit school after the ninth grade. As mayor, Kucinich forced business leaders to meet with him at Tony's Diner. He hopes to unite blacks and white ethnics under his banner of "urban populism." It is this vision of "the coalition of the future" that makes Kucinich unique...
...arable acreage for land reform. It ordered an investigation into the fate of 276 people who "disappeared" during Romero's reign. It pledged to form close ties with Nicaragua's new revolutionary government and to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The junta also begged El Salvador's leftist guerrillas to lay down their arms and join in building a "just society...
...sweeping changes won quick approval from Washington, which hailed the new government as "progressive and reasonable." It also won the cautious endorsement of San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero y Galdamez. In a broadcast over the national radio station, the archbishop pleaded with his countrymen to give the new regime time to prove that "its beautiful promises are not dead letters but rather a real hope that a new era has begun for our country...
...Police, who killed 18 people in a savage attack on striking workers at four large factories in the capital. Leftist terrorists cut loose with an orgy of violent protest, blowing up three power plants and burning seven buses. The 75,000-member Popular Revolutionary Bloc, the largest of El Salvador's leftist movements, denounced the new junta as merely a "change of face" and planned a mass demonstration in San Salvador. While giving permission for the demonstration, the new junta warned that it would use force, if necessary, to prevent a new outbreak of street fighting. Declared Ungo...