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...many cases staffed, by the military and by government security forces have murdered thousands of people suspected of leftist sympathies. Stung by charges that it has not pressed the government of Alvaro Magaña hard enough on the matter, the White House sent Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé to San Salvador two weeks ago to demand action. In a major policy statement delivered in Dallas after his return, Iklé declared that "the death squads of the violent right and the death squads of the guerrillas fight not each other but the democratic center and the government...
...right-wing ARENA Party. U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering has warned that continued U.S. economic and military aid would depend on evidence that the government was making an effort to "deal with [the terrorism] directly." During a visit to El Salvador last week, Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle charged that the death squads actually "serve the Communist cause...
...Fred Korematsu was a name that had lived in constitutional infamy. The Oakland-born steel welder refused to obey a 1942 military order banning all people of Japanese ancestry from San Leandro, Calif. As a result, he was called a "Jap spy" in a newspaper headline, sentenced to five years' probation and removed to a detention camp. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction and the evacuation order, thereby enshrining his name as a legal landmark. Later, when many began to question the internment of 100,000 Japanese-American citizens, Korematsu vs. United States was known to jurists...
...have to forget the notion of dial, ring, talk and m listen," says Randall Tobias, president of AT&T Consumer Products. The phone that is within easy reach of most consumers is about to undergo a dramatic transformation. It will no longer be just an instrument to call Uncle Fred in Fredonia. The phone of the future will be more mobile, do a host of different tasks and be part of a complex, far-reaching information network. Says Hans Mattes, director of AT&T's Home Communications Laboratory: "The telephone will be the cornerstone of a communication system...
Cambridge and Kennedy School of Government officials yesterday Fred Jon.M. Hookman, this year's winner of the $7500 Arthur D. Little foundation fellowship...