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...Ambassador's address was followed by comments from a panel of Latin American experts. Lawrence Harrison, a visiting scholar at the IOP and former director of the Agency for International Developments program in Nicaragua, said that "at the root of the conflict between the U.S. and Nicaragua is the arms flow from Nicaragua to El Salvador...
Explaining this year's kindly gesture toward the institution which he has heckled repeatedly during his long political career, Vellucci said, "We usually support then, unless they get out of line. Then we root for the opposition...
...shame that Creepshow fails so miserably, even as crude entertainment, because the initial premise is a good one. In the horror genre, King and Romero represent the opposite poles of safe commercialism and bizarre individuality, but here they both go back to their common root--the pulp comic book. The short vignette, already used to great effect in such classics as Tales from the Crypt and the marvelous Dead of Night, is the perfect medium to evoke the atmosphere of horror comics--those brief blurry flashes of primary-colored terror framed by win-great-prizes-selling-junk-door-to-door...
DIED. Waverley Root, 79, prolific Paris-based foreign correspondent and author of compendious books on haute cuisine; of lung disease; in Paris. Despite writing such weighty tomes as his two-volume The Secret History of the War and The Truth about Wagner, Root was savored most for gastronomic texts like The Food of France (1958). Root's cardinal rule for eating in Paris: Follow the taxi drivers...
...scores of meetings, teach-ins, lectures, articles, letters to newspapers, people have expressed their alarm over the course of events in this summer of 1982. They have expressed a basic and fundamental right to know what is at the root of problems that appear to be endemic to the region and chronic to relations between Israel and the Palestinians. This nationwide opening has charged the nature of the discussion of the Middle East. It has become possible to deal with the Israeli Palestinian conflict as a national conflict involving state power and not simply a conflict mystified in apolitical terms...