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...takes the oath of office, the new President will doubtless be hailed enthusiastically by most Nicaraguans -- at least for a while. Sick of war, citizens want their government to turn to the bread-and-butter issues that are the bane of all Nicaraguan existence. The magnitude of the task of rebuilding the shattered country makes Chamorro's advisers optimistic that the cease-fire will hold. Says Gilberto Cuadra, president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise: "Neither the army nor the contras have a future in this country." But cease-fires have been called before in Nicaragua -- and have failed...
...Like all English bishops, his successor will be named by the Prime Minister and formally appointed by the Queen. Thatcher, raised as a Methodist, is probably not sorry to see Runcie go: she has been vexed by his pleas for the suffering poor under her economic policies and doubtless agrees with Peterborough's Bishop William Westwood that "the church needs to take a less high profile" under its next leader...
Though the Avianca crash will doubtless make nervous flyers even more jittery, experts say the odds of a similar accident happening are not great. A flow-control system tightened after the 1981 air controllers' strike has reduced circling time near U.S. airports by requiring more weather delays to be spent on the ground. Fuel shortages turn to catastrophe only if crews do not notice or clearly declare their predicament. Said C.O. Miller, former chief aviation-accident investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board: "The Avianca crew apparently failed to recognize or perceive the immensity of the problem." In the aftermath...
...same critics (doubtless Harvard Alumni Association and Massachusetts Hall heavies threatened by the success of prodivestment petition candidates for Booard of Overseers) were not heard from when they nominated Sen. Albert Gore '69, who, according to informed sources, attended not a single meeting during his first year on the board. And the trip from Washington to Cambridge was a little easier for Gore than for Tutu...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that...