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...right-wing factions that could sap Duarte's strength in the assembly is led by Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer who has been repeatedly accused of being a death squad leader, a charge he ignores. He has become an attractive campaigner with a winning smile and a promise to step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove...
...retirement, John's scene calls for him to grin as he is introduced in a crowded fight arena. The Fade-Out. "I climbed into the ring and waved at the screaming crowd," says John of his scene. "The roar of the crowd, the flush of blood-the sap begins to flow through the branches. It was enough to make one want to get back into politics again...
...however, lies with past teen-age attitudes toward learning and a decade-long decline in high school standards. Wayne Brown of the Tennessee higher education commission believes that the $1 million spent in his state on college remediation should be recycled into high school programs. Says Brown: "Remedial courses sap the energy of the college and university faculty. We must say to the high schools that it really does matter how well the student learns math and English...
...into renegade political activism; a corrupt System flays him, but under the vulnerable Midwestern skin is a species of American hero. In his best comedy, The Lady Eve (1941), Fonda is the perfect patsy for a con woman, Barbara Stanwyck?so perfect that she falls in love with the sap. Watching Fonda writhe under Stanwyck's bogus endearments remains one of the high delights of screwball farce...
...sources in the blowdown area. Though fish are unlikely to be seen in Spirit Lake for years, bacteria and algae have colonized the lakes to become the first link in a developing food chain. The insect population was heavily damaged, but scientists are now finding ladybugs feeding on the sap of green bracken ferns, which are emerging from the ash, and armies of black ants at work in a dried mud-flow. Honey bees are hard at it among the new blossoms...