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...FALKLAND CRISIS should have added to the momentum initiated by the Nicaraguan proposal. The Administration should have seen that not only do Latin American leftists behave reasonably when given a chance, but that Latin American rightists can commit actions just as onerous as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But instead, the Reagan administration bungled both the Argentine and Nicaraguan situations, returning to its naive East-West explanation of the world. Despite Nicaragua's acceptance of the U.S. proposal for talks, which probably surprised Washington, a government "source" in the Washington Post recently declared the government's conviction that the Sandinistas...
Despite many initial doubts, the wom en almost universally praised the commit tee after the first meeting. Says Mary Farrar, 41, president and founder of Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery...
...crew team coach last week rescued a man who apparently attempted to commit suicide by walking into the icy waters of the Charles River in the late afternoon...
...past three years Massachusetts has been lurching from one crisis to the next, while state government ran on automatic pilot," Dukakis said before reiterating his own plan to commit 40 percent of all state revenue growth to local...
Most students agree that surviving years of "exam hell" provides one common experience, a bond that lasts through life. But there are those who do not survive. The pressure to do well can become so intense that some students commit suicide, even before attempting college entrance exams. The teen-age suicide rate in Japan is 17.6 per 100,000 (in the U.S. it is 10.9), and almost all of it is thought to be related to academic stress. This January one ronin electrocuted himself because he was afraid to take the college entrance exam a second time. Indeed, the universities...