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...speech, which was sponsored by the Human Right Program of the Law School, Sosa described examples of government brutality and defended her organization's nonviolent attempts to end the seven-year civil war which has plagued El Salvador...
...some 140 political prisoners pardoned last month by Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the best known was Mathematician Iosif Begun, a 54-year-old refusenik. He was freed after serving 3 1/2 years of a seven-year term for anti-Soviet activity that consisted mainly of teaching Hebrew and campaigning for Jewish cultural rights. After being reunited with his family and friends on a Moscow train platform last week, Begun relaxed in his apartment and spoke with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson of how he passed his time in prison. A compact man with cheerful blue eyes...
...Plymouth Horizon that had been abandoned at the parking lot of a Harrisburg, Pa., motel. She was a recently divorced schoolteacher. Her children Karen, 11, and Michael, 10, had vanished, most likely on the day their mother was killed. They have never been found, and are presumed dead. A seven-year investigation eventually led to the arrests and convictions of two men, former colleagues of Reinert's at the Upper Merion High School outside Philadelphia...
Meanwhile Congress has commissioned the National Academy of Sciences Foundation to conduct a seven-year study on the effects that a suspension of mandatory retirement would have on the tenure process and higher education...
Last fall Congress passed a new federal law that prohibits employers from enforcing a mandatory retirement age. The bill includes a seven-year exemption for centers of higher learning, due in part to heavy lobbying by Harvard officials. (See accompanying story...