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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even undergraduates not charged with great responsibility say they have enjoyed their headquarters work Mare O. Litt '84, has helped with advance work for the Dukakis campaign, occasionally driving to the site of a speaking engagement several times beforehand to see which route will be fastest. Says Litt of the rewards for hard work: "When I follow Dukakis to an interview, I see what he says during the talk, what they place that night on the news and what they print the next morning in the paper I have learned a lot about how the media covers campaigns...
...adjoining refugee camps called Sabra and Shatila. Hundreds of others are listed as missing, and the toll is estimated to be at least 800, if it is ever known precisely. Many of the victims, who also included Lebanese residents of the camps, lay buried in a hastily bulldozed site that was dug by the killers near the Shatila entrance as they finished up their murderous spree. Rescue workers decided against reopening the grave. Other victims presumably still remain in houses that were dynamited in a crude attempt to cover up the extent of the atrocity...
...millions. The son, now 36 and an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, helps manage a budget of $6 billion and devised the offshore-oil leasing scheme that produced up to $10 billion in federal revenues last year. A while back, West flew over Alaska's Beaufort Sea, the site of oil exploration, and decided he was in the middle of one of the last great Western adventures. "My God," he said, "it is exhilarating...
...equipped with special electronic "ears" to hear the beeps of small planes or ships in distress, picked up the downed aircraft's automatic emergency beacon and relayed the signals to an antenna outside Ottawa. There a computer quickly used them to obtain a navigational "fix" on the crash site. Within hours, a helicopter plucked the three men out of the wilderness, injured but alive...
...acquired its major portion of the property--the Simplex area--from the old Simplex cable and Wire Company in 1970. It did not acquire the full 27-acre site until 1980, however, and it began seeking a developer last spring