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...Jose, Calif., a booming city, actually lives off its own growth. The largest employer is the home-building industry, kept busy by the doubling of the city's population (to 500,000) since 1960. Trouble is, San Jose has been growing so fast that it cannot keep up with the demand for new roads, sewer systems and, above all, schools. Seven of the 26 school districts operate on double sessions. Fed up, citizens last April approved a referendum requiring developers to get special permission from school districts before applying for residential zoning changes. Remarkably, the voters, including those...
General Pinochet's call was followed by one from the navy commander, Admiral Jose Toribio Merino Castro, who repeated the ultimatum. "I will not surrender," Allende declared. "That is a course for cowards like yourself...
...long in a closet. Thousands surged around the smoky ruins of La Moneda. People in their Sunday best jammed into El Trafico bar, located in the shabby remains of the house where Chile's founding father, Bernardo O'Higgins, had met with the liberator of Argentina, Jose de San Martin. To the patrons swilling white wine and munching pork sandwiches, it seemed fitting to celebrate in a historic political monument−but there was no talk of politics, for the first time in memory...
...gained its independence from Spain in 1818, the country has been periodically racked by economic strife and class warfare, with the military entering the fray on one side or the other. In 1891, civil war broke out when part of the armed forces sided with a progressive President, Jose Manuel Balmaceda (who committed suicide when he lost), and part with a Congress determined to block his reforms. Allende frequently drew parallels between Balmaceda's plight...
Brown scored on a ten-yard run by sophomore Hubie Morgan (an impressive prospect) and a field goal by Jose Violante...