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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides publicly swear to uphold the Arias Plan, yet, as the events of the past week make clear, they privately seek to undermine it. The resulting tragedy is that the Arias Plan, which represented the only real hope for peace and democracy in Nicaragua and throughout Central America, is now on its deathbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shooting Down a Dove | 3/24/1988 | See Source »

MORE erudite undergraduates seek something cultured and scenic. They flock towards Mexico or the Carribean Islands, where the ocean is blue and the drinking age ignored. The most difficult part of this sort of trip, though, is gathering information and making arrangements. One of my room-mates spent the better part of an afternoon shrieking, "Habla Ingles?" into a telephone without getting an intelligible response--but it might have been the connection...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: A Harvard Guide to Hedonism | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...measure's supporters plan to send students and activists to lobby for the measure on Beacon Hill before they seek more legislative co-sponsors, said Berger...

Author: By Arnold M. Zipper, | Title: Graham Introduces Divestment Bill | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

First, responsible criticism knocks the wind out of irresponsible criticism, especially those who liken Israeli soldiers shooting back at rock-throwing Palestinians to Nazis in extermination camps. Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the New Republic, suggests that those who wield corrupt analogies of Jews to Nazis seek to expel the Holocaust from memory by diminishing its significance. That alone would justify our straight talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Israel Below Criticism? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...them while police fired volleys of bird shot and U.S.-made tear gas into the crowd. For the next two hours, knots of marchers chanted, banged poles, and burned tires and garbage in the streets. Shuttling from one area of protest to the next, police forced the groups to seek refuge in bars and boutiques and finally directed their fire into the shops and even into apartments. Said an indignant woman inside a store that reeked of eye-stinging gas: "I'm an old lady with a bad heart, and still they spray that at me. I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama The Big Squeeze | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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