Brazil’s Collor ends 100 days with sharp reforms and evolving support
In 100 days since taking office on March 15, President Collor de Mello moved to curb inflation by freezing assets, cutting ministries, auctioning government assets, and liberalizing imports. Inflation fell from 84 percent to 3.3 percent in April, with a 74 percent approval in May as protests and praise mixed amid privatizations and austerity.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Fernando Collor de Mello
Paul Singer
Sao Paulo
Collor
Coller
O Estado de Sao Paulo
Lear Urges Teachers To Emphasize Morals In Class
Kansas City reports Norman Lear, TV producer and civil liberties advocate, urged 8,100 teachers at the NEA convention to focus on inner life and core values. He warned against greed and materialism fueling social ills while stressing religion should be taught without proselytizing or trampling minority faiths.
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Lear
Kansas City
Norman Lear
National Education Association
Christian Science Couple Ordered Medical Checks for Children
David and Ginger Twitchell, convicted of manslaughter in the 1986 death of their 2 1/2 year old son Robyn, must serve 10 years probation with strict supervision and require their three remaining children to have regular medical checkups under AMA guidelines. The judge also mandated calling a doctor at signs of serious illness.
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Boston
David
Ginger Twitchell
Twitchell
Robyn
Superior Court
Sandra Hamlin
American Medical Association
Hamlin
Descendants of Peay Slaves Hold Reunion in Columbia
Descendants of slaves owned by Confederate Col. Nicholas Peay gathered in Columbia for a Friday and Saturday reunion. More than 300 attendees, including some Peay descendants, celebrated a plantation era that did not split up families as other owners did. The event traced lineage via Peay wills and records, with visits to Camp Welfare encampment near Lancaster and the old mansion site along the Wateree River in Fairfield County.
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Columbia
Nicholas Peay
Ophelia D. Owens
Nancy D. Sutton
Louise Brown
New
McMillan
Peay
Wateree River
Fairfield County
Flint Hill
Sutton
Peays
William Tecumseh ‘Sherman
Lancaster County
Owens
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Cancun
Bermuda
Nassau
Hawaii
Caymans
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Dan II
Danny
Ise
Cpenney
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