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...official note released by the foreign ministry on Sunday, Brazil announced that it had granted political asylum to Latin America's longest-ruling dictator, who was deposed in a bloody coup Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Paraguayan Dictator Flees Country | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...aboveground. The Tokyo Electric company already has a high-voltage power station right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Japan's Underground Frontier | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...PBHA's Project Literacy's longest running programs, the ECI group was started in 1986, says founder and co-chair Mary Ellen Ronayne '89. The urgency of the need for the program is shown by the new immigrants' shaky command of English...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Boston Program Offers English as a Second Chance | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

ASUNCION, Paraguay--The longest ruling leader in the Western Hemisphere was asked to leave the country yesterday after an army faction seized power in this capital of 90,000, according to a spokesperson for the opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paraguayan President Forced to Quit | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

When George Bush became President last week, he inherited that mountainous load, along with a 74-month economic boom, the longest peacetime expansion in the modern era. Bush, who once ridiculed Reagan's policies as "voodoo economics," must now confront both sides of the Reaganomics legacy. In doing so, he will turn for economic advice to a profession that is struggling to find new ways of understanding the unprecedented boom-and-borrow cycle of the past eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knitting New Notions: U.S. economists jettison Reagan formulas | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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