Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspired subversion in the region. But the commission members flatly condemned the country's abysmal human rights record (see box). In a tense confrontation with right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland angrily questioned D'Aubuisson's charges that Samuel Maldonado, leader of the 100,000-strong Salvadoran Communal Union, a peasant organization that has close ties to U.S. labor groups, had collaborated with leftist guerrillas...
...abhors minority representation in government, but the suspicion runs high because Watt derided not only his commissioners, but also those members of the public sufficiently generous to find both humor and value in a sensitive issue. The laughter he elicited-and there was laughter-was the hollow laugh, what Samuel Beckett called the "mirthless" laugh (in the novel Watt, coincidentally), the laugh that itself gives a slap in the face...
...Dominguez case has reduced Harvard's once vibrant Latin American studies program to a near shadow existence. Because key Latin American political scientists, Professors Terry Karl and Samuel Valenzuela, are on leave, we are faced with insufficient faculty coverage in Latin American studies. Those of us who choose to pursue these studies and write theses in this area are now left with the unacceptable prospect of having to work with Professor Dominguez, the only professor left in this field...
...building is named after Deutschman's parents, Samuel and Ida Gelfand...
News-Week. Thomas John Cardell Martyn, 41, a spirited little Britisher whom the New York Times employed for six years in its editorial department, left the Times last year to write a prospectus, raise money, start a magazine. Samuel Thurston Williamson, 16 years with the Times and once its Washington correspondent, quit his job to join Publisher Martyn as editor. Last week they presented their product, News-Week, written & edited in Manhattan, printed in Dayton, Ohio. Their advertisements said: "It marshals facts against their background, throws revealing light into obscure situations-helps you understand the news . . . NEWSWEEK is today with...