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...selection of the millionaire Spanish-speaking lawyer was greeted with restrained enthusiasm by many of his former congressional colleagues. Some were troubled by his hard-line ideological views, the same views that endear him to his Administration supporters, National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Stone's work in 1981 and 1982 as a paid lobbyist for the right-wing Guatemalan government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, a regime with an abysmal record of human rights abuses, also disturbs some members of Congress; they fear that this connection will hurt his credibility with Salvadoran leftists...
...Erich Segal's first novel Love Story, is traditional Freshman Week entertainment for good reason--it combines the most tearful of romances with the hope that true love can be found at Harvard. But Segal's latest. Which opens in Boston area theaters Friday, won't as easily endear itself to Cantabridgians. Erich Segal, who wrote the screenplay, as well as the original novel, for Man, Woman and Child, has deserted fair Harvard for the University of Southern California (cleverly disguised as a "Southern California University") where Bob Beck with teaches English literature. The sentimental appeal remains, embodied...
Winning the cost-efficiency prize did not endear me to my co-workers, and interaction was often tense. Eight of us worked within 25 square feet, each slowly frying under the super-heat lamps designed for the chicken orders. I tried to avoid discussing the outside world...
...President's most recent machinations will not endear his Administration to minorities any more than the Bob Jones controversy did. As long as the Administration tries to castrate this civil liberty, what has been formed the President's "crisis of confidence" in his commitment to minorities continues unabated...
Even within the system that they profess to despise, the youngsters have their sympathizers. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, the former S.P.D. mayor of West Berlin whose lenient approach to local housing squatters did nothing to endear him to already disenchanted voters in last May's local election: "There is definitely a youth protest that has spread all over. The real problem is understanding the motivation behind the movement. I see a lack of credibility among the young toward politicians and all things political, a feeling that too much of their life is administered for them...