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Last week the FBI finally caught up with Jose Suarez, 51, who is suspected by federal prosecutors of following Letelier in a car from which the bomb was detonated. The Cuban American was arrested in St. Petersburg, where he had been living under his real name for at least two years. A local policewoman identified Suarez and tipped off the FBI. U.S. officials now hope that the elected government of Patricio Aylwin will extradite or prosecute Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, two high-ranking secret-police officers accused of masterminding the assassination. If so, the U.S. might resume military...
...Jose Lutzenberger, an ecologically oriented agronomist, is Brazil's most unflinching environmentalist. Lutzenberger aroused the anger of the administration of former President Jose Sarney by daring to declare publicly that the rest of the world had a legitimate interest in the fate of the Amazon rain forest. "If you set your homes on fire, it will threaten the homes of your neighbors," Lutzenberger noted with simple eloquence. Because of his reputation for outspokenness, the international environmental community was dumbfounded in March, when newly inaugurated President Fernando Collor de Mello named Lutzenberger Secretary of the Environment...
...sport requires no special skill or physical conditioning, the challenge is strictly psychological. Veteran jumpers like to tease newcomers by telling them it's not the fall they should be afraid of, but hitting the ground. Some participants describe the experience as "death survived." Susan Steade, 27, a San Jose writer, made two jumps in the summer of 1988. Says she: "Skydiving was a lot less scary." Lance Colvin, 30, a computer specialist in Santa Clara, Calif., is a veteran of 50 leaps. "You get sweaty palms, cotton mouth," he says. "But the jump is one of the most elating...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Jose M. Ferrer III, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
...know it sounds cliched, but it was my dream [to come to Harvard] the summer before my junior year of high school, and when I found out in December, I didn't have to think twice," said Estela Torres of San Jose, Calif...