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Seniors Lyle Asaoka and Bob Barry, juniors Dean Heck and Vince Tone and sophomore Dave Towle round out the starting line up. Sophomore Brian Black, probably the best athlete on the Bruin's squad, is out for the season with torn knee ligaments...
Hoagland is hardly the first observer of animals and lairs to balance between the rough call of the woods and the concentrated frenzy of big city living. Since Thoreau, the American essayist has been torn by the happy agony of deciding whether to leave the city for the country, and upon leaving, when to return. Nowadays the tension of two homes is stock-in-trade for the essayist, though few display the pertinacious ease and delight with acquired folkways that distinguish both Hoagland and his counterpart, John McPhee...
...martyred female FSLN comandante, and aims to "transform, little by little, the situation of margination and backwardness of the Nicaraguan women." According to Silvia Reyes, and AMNLAE leader, that means helping women to deal with machismo in personal relationships, and to use economic and political potential to rebuild war-torn Nicaragua...
Today there is nothing amusing about this strife-torn and suffering region, if there ever was. Its five nations with 20 million people make up one of the most impoverished belts of the Western Hemisphere. If the bustling capitals have made it into the modern age, their vast rural areas are still largely shrouded in the semifeudalism of bygone centuries. Except for the transistor radio and the motorcycle, few of the amenities of modern life have ever arrived. Village women weave their own brightly colored dresses on primitive handmade looms. Water is fetched from a common spigot, and ox carts...
...volcanic terrain seems to reflect the violent conflicts that the region had known even before the Spanish conquistadors first arrived in the 16th century. Nowadays, Central America is once again the land of the smoking gun. It is torn by struggle and threatened by a chain reaction of upheavals that could have far-reaching repercussions throughout the Americas. Warns Lieut. General Wallace Nutting, senior officer of the U.S. Southern Command: "All of Central America could very easily radicalize, and a very substantial wedge would be driven between north and south...