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...angry mob, chanting "Latin Si, Pusey No," marched from the steps of Widener to Pusey's house, where, after an attempt to storm the house failed, Pusey addressed the crowd with a poem...
...Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta last week met with officials in Minnesota. Their preliminary investigation did not reveal evidence of a communicable disease, an inherited malady or exposure to a noxious agent. The mysterious deaths have, however, had an easily identifiable side effect: an increase in homesickness Says Si Thao, an interpreter for Lue Thao's widow: "She has no skills, no education and she cannot speak English Now she has no husband. All she wants to do is go back to Laos...
...than the unguided guest is one who cannot talk at all. Brokaw also recalls with a shudder .ininterview with an Italian film director who suddenly froze and reverted to his native tongue. Brokaw had, as usual, done his homework and answered his own questions while the film director nodded "Si, si, si. "CBS'S Schieffer had a some what similar experience. He was interviewing a Soviet emigree who suddenly began arguing with her translator. For three minutes the two argued in Russian until the matter was resolved...
...Vota si!" The exhortation seemed to come from every billboard, radio and TV set in the country, and despite a muted chorus of dissent, the issue was never really in doubt. Last week, in a national plebiscite held seven years to the day after the violent overthrow of their last freely elected government, Chile's voters roundly endorsed the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The vote ratified a new constitution that gives Pinochet, 64, at least eight more years as "transitional" President-and suggests the full rebirth of direct democracy only in 1997. As the returns trickled...
...proclaimed that "Maine is a strong si lent country and so I being born there am able to express it in terms of itself with which I am familiar...