Word: ramirez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eden Pastora, the perennial Nicaraguan maverick, returned to Managua last week in a homecoming more quixotic than heroic. The charismatic former guerrilla will campaign for dark-horse Social Christian presidential candidate Erick Ramirez, touting him as an alternative to both the Marxist Sandinistas and the National Opposition Union, a coalition dominated by the right wing...
Pastora can dazzle audiences, but he is not a candidate. His stumping for Ramirez will probably split opposition votes, which is one reason the Sandinistas let Pastora return in the first place...
...scholars around the country echo Ramirez's concerns, saying that the creation of an ethnic studies department confers legitimacy and financial security on fields which might otherwise be neglected...
...feel that it is adequate simply having two visting professors each year for one semester each. It does not meet the students' curricular needs," says Ramirez. "The independent departments are not taking much initiative to find people, and that concerns us. We're going to try to come up with some proposals next year for a department...
...very direct and very good about keepingthe pressure there [on administrators, so] it'svery hard for the administration to avoid orignore us at times," says Edith Ramirez '89, alsoof...