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...guerrilla representative, Arnoldo Ramos, told a crowd of just over 100 that the U.S. government is pursuing a purely military policy while failing to work toward a negotiated solution that would address the social problems at the root of the revolution...
Simplicity is at the root of both Bauer's acting and her dancing. No gesture is ever blatant or coarse. Her art consists of purity of expression. Every movement is delicate and controlled, a study in effortless precision. These qualities are particularly suited to Giselle as a willi...
During the 1970s, the California wine boom seemed like a party that would never end. In the past ten years, growers boosted wine-grape acreage by 26%, to 363,000. Nearly 100 new wineries took root between 1978 and 1982 in the Napa Valley and adjoining Sonoma County. But sales, which had grown by an average 6% annually during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes...
...President. Rioting swept the black town ships in an area known as the Vaal triangle, to the south and east of Johannesburg, resulting in the deaths of at least 31 people. While the unrest was sparked by rent increases of 15% to 20% for government-owned housing, at the root of the rebellious mood was the fact that the country's 23 million blacks, who make up about 73% of the population, still have no political power whatsoever. The new constitution, which was approved by two-thirds of the 2.7 million white voters in a referendum last November, fails...
...root of the discussion are the strong ethnic and historical loyalties different groups of voters have had toward the parties. The Yankee Protestants, allied with the Republican party, had historically opposed the Irish Catholic immigrants, who found political voice in the Democratic party...