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...gang of Central Americans and Americans was allegedly responsible for the kidnaping. Three of them had waited in the bushes to grab their victim as she pulled her Mercedes into the driveway of the Quinonez home in the wealthy Miami suburb of Coral Gables. They then drove her to the hideaway in Washington. Calling from telephone booths in Miami and Washington, they negotiated with her husband, Export-Import Dealer Roberto Quinonez Meza, for a ransom of $1.5 million. Disobeying the kidnapers' orders, Quinonez had notified the FBI the first day of the abduction and had taken calls from...
Australian Director Bruce Beresford approaches the adolescent surfing culture of a Sydney suburb as if he were an anthropologist and his subjects were an exotic outback tribe. But the somewhat distant and objective manner that served so effectively to dehydrate his Tender Mercies fails him here. Two girls (prettily played by Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja) scheme to gain admission to the gang, win acceptance and then at last outgrow the group. The tale is not told with great dramatic intensity. Nor is it really as strange and shocking as Beresford seems to think it is. Indeed, to jaded American...
...because he knew he was going to have to take Jill too." At 46, Jill Ruckelshaus is not a typical political wife. She holds a master's degree in education from Harvard. She prefers backyard basketball to black-tie dinners, and a quiet family life in a Seattle suburb to the social whirl of Washington, D.C. A decade ago, her vocal support of women's rights earned her the nickname "the Gloria Steinem of the Republican Party...
Reagan again argued that merit pay for teachers and a return to basics would do more to remedy the "mediocrity" in the schools than infusions of new federal money. On a visit to Farragut High School in a suburb of Knoxville, he listened approvingly as Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander outlined his "master teacher" plan. It would offer salaries of up to $27,100 for top teachers, in contrast with a current high of about $17,800. "If we want to achieve excellence, we must reward it," Reagan said. "It is the American way." While the President was in Tennessee...
...gymnasium in the Minneapolis suburb was hot and airless. Students squirmed T in the bleachers while a panel of teachers and politicians discussed the quality of education. One shirtsleeved speaker, however, held the audience rapt. "I just have a feeling that maybe the generation that went through the Great Depression and the great war, World War II, maybe we thought we ought to make things easier for our children," mused the President. "Maybe we're partly responsible for what has happened." Ronald Reagan's main message to the forum in Hopkins, Minn., sponsored by his National Commission...