Word: steven
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Representative Steven Solarz (D-N.Y.), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee said a change in policy by the Administration would make "a mockery of our pretensions to support the cause of human rights in Central America when we provide military assistance to a government like the one in Guatemala, whose security forces are responsible for the massacre of literally thousands of their own people." Unfortunately, Reagan can restore aid without Congressional approval, However, the Administration would have to periodically report to Congress on human rights conditions in Guatemala, as it currently does for El Salvador...
...Vegas, gambling during the summer high season produced $446.5 million in revenues; this was 24% more than in the previous summer and only slightly less than the $455 million raked in by Vegas casinos during that period. Moreover, the gap has continued to narrow this autumn. Says Steven Norton, executive vice president for Resorts International, which operates the oldest, largest and most successful casino in the city: "By 1984, gambling revenues in New Jersey will surpass those in Las Vegas." During October, he notes, Atlantic City's revenues jumped a startling 39% over those of the previous year...
History Professor Steven E. Ozmeni agrees with Nagy's reference to the calming effects of jogging. Ozmeni says. "When you sit around on your fanny all day, as most serious scholars do, writing, you build up a lot of tensions and frustrations and energies. Also I run so I can eat as much ice cream as I like. You have to feel better, you have to look better, you have to be more friendly and sociable if you do some kind of exercise. Athletes are the friendliest people, right...
...Mayor, reached in a hotel suite in Los Angeles, where he is attending a National League of Cities conference, said the affair will take place next week at the Steven James House in the Porter Square section of Cambridge and will feature his renowned Italian cooking...
...journalists are not so sure. Les Payne, national editor of Long Island's Newsday and president of the National Association of Black Journalists, contends: "Some papers may be better than others, but we still have to break the pattern of inertia." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles and Don Winbush/Chicago