Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city for about 36 hours before the Sandinist junta gained control. Soldiers rushed into and out of downtown office buildings. So hopelessly disorganized were both sides, that when a random officer of the National Guard wandered into in terim President Urcuyo's bunker seeking written permission for his son to leave the country, the President pounced upon him to serve as a liason between the government and the new junta. Within several hours, the officer managed to accomplish what neither the U.S., Sandinists, nor Urcuyo had been equal to: establishing communications between the groups, and setting up direct negotiations...
...margins as high as 3-1, ended his grip on politics at the next election. Looking back, Troy feels the ordeal did have one benefit. "The family [including nine children] kept together with all the trouble. Of course, I am sorry for the embarrassment it caused them. My son has the same name-he'll have to live it down-and he wants to be a lawyer. I have a feeling he wants to vindicate everything...
...research-oriented universities. He has buttressed his argument with an impressive performance. In 1970, at the age of 23, he became one of the youngest college presidents in American history when he took over and briefly revived New Hampshire's failing and nonaccredited Franconia College. At 28, Botstein, the son of two Polish refugee doctors, became president of Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley. In addition to expanding the curriculum, Botstein intends to turn Bard into a valley cultural center. An accomplished violinist, Botstein has occasionally been invited to conduct the Hudson Valley Philharmonic...
...shanties that are home to more than 1 million people in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Earlier, Jackson had addressed a group of residents at Crossroads, a famed squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town. He was greeted there by a banner reading WELCOME HOME, NOBLE SON OF AFRICA...
...them lies the real story: a family's love and strength even as the disease, in Kathryn's words, "strikes and scars them all." The adolescent crises of the Ryans' two children, all but ignored in the face of the family catastrophe, have serious repercussions. Their son Geoff, after experimenting with drugs, runs away from home...