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About the situation in El Salvador, the report states that the country is "in transition to a multi-party democracy" and that "there were signs of [human rights] improvement throughout the year." These statements are necessary in order to comply with the 1981 Act of Congress which stipulates the President must show that the government is bringing "an end to the indiscriminate torture and murder of Salvadorean Citizens." Thus, the Report states. "There was a significant decrease in political violence in 1982." This may be true, but political killings, torture and disappearances continued at high levels in 1982. Twenty...
Working from this perspective the Israelis are exploiting the multi-religious character of the Lebanese population by arming and supporting various political factions within Lebanon. Through this selective process the Israelis are tailoring the political climate of Lebanon to suit their needs. "The Israelis have created several Shiite Moslem militias, armed the Lebanese Forces. Christian militias which has units here, promoted former Lebanese Army Major Salid Haddad, whose forces they have armed and equipped for five years, and are now attempting to form a Sunni Moslem militia here in Sidon," (Washington Post, March...
Koury is the founder and director of the Boston Youth Theatre, a multi-racial company of young Boston-area actors, which in the course of its seven year existence has produced an admirable series of plays and musicals. The Youth Theatre hit big twice with I Am Boston during the city's 350th Jubilee, and Z Appenin, a loose adaptation of the Peter Pan story set in Boston's Combat Zone and featuring dancing cockroaches among the other denizens of that area. Like those works, Just Desserts is an original musical, conceived, written and directed by Koury. Desserts is Koury...
...Bullfinch Courthouse in East Cambridge will house a new Multi-Cultural Arts Center, David Kronberg, director of the project, said yesterday...
...weren't for Harvard's decentralized, multi leveled theater setup, Hackett might not have pursued acting at all. In high school, she sang and acted in musicals. Freshman and sophomore years she sang with two Harvard bands. Hand to Mouth and The Girl Next Door, Her first, dampening encounter with acting at Harvard came freshman week when she tried out for a freshman seminar in acting given by Robert Chapman, professor of English. She was rejected...