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Beyond the widespread anguish caused by the quake, there was also deep concern in Mexico over the economic implications of the disaster. Already burdened with severe economic problems (see box), the nation was struck a savage blow. "There will be an immense cost," predicted Clemente Ruiz Duran, an economist and former official of Mexico's central bank. Reconstruction must await the end of the effort to rescue survivors. While cranes and heavy earthmoving equipment were scarce, federal and municipal officials moved swiftly after the blow came. The National Defense Secretariat activated a standing plan for just such an emergency, mobilizing...
...turmoil in El Salvador took an especially ugly turn last week when Ines Guadelupe Duarte Duran, the 35-year-old daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, was kidnaped by several armed assailants in downtown San Salvador, the capital. Duarte Duran, a divorced mother of three and the oldest of the President's six children, was seized outside the New San Salvador University, where she has been studying public relations. Ana Cecilia Villeda, a 23-year- old student and Duarte Duran's former secretary, was also abducted. One of Duarte Duran's two bodyguards was killed by gunfire; the other...
...creature of the media; he lives and prospers through the forces that have been nudging theater to the margins. Larger-than-life means being a master of the music, sound, and light, that can be carried in a cassette, a boy or girl on film--to quote mediamasters Duran Duran. Competing with characters that are more than a single man, how can the theater survive but by capitalizing on its weakness...
With only Gerry Cooney for a hyphenated rival, Holmes is undefined in an Ali- Frazier, Leonard-Duran sense, though the Ken Norton fight was memorable to everyone who saw it. That started Holmes' term of office almost seven years ago, when Easton, Pa., threw the only parade. "I was so happy, I thought I was going to cry," he says. "But I kept things in, and I just waved. It wouldn't be right for the world heavyweight champion to be crying." Having seen Ali wander from Louisville to Chicago to Los Angeles, Holmes knew enough never to leave Easton...
...could Randy Newman's asinine I Love L.A. make your top 20 videos and not Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf or Union of the Snake...