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...street lamps, like every other street here. Tonight it is raining-raining black oil, slicking roads, roofs, every breathable molecule of air-and I am standing outside in the pitch darkness on the no-name main street, waiting to catch a bus to Piedades, another suburb of San Jose: I’m going night swimming...
...like the poor Nicaraguan refugees who fill up the slums and ghettos outside the city limits. Only the “Nicas” have this one advantage: they are feared, and their poverty, their presence, is a constant, weighty shadow that creeps along the edges of cosmopolitan San Jose. They will not be forgotten as long as even taxi drivers, that typically fearless breed of city dweller, refuse to set foot in their ramshackle villages in broad daylight. Their festering humanity, heartrending as it is to the eye, has its virtue in visibility...
...Magazine was a brave political publication in the final years of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. It relaunched last week with an entirely different focus: health spas, feng shui, diets. The magazine's launch party was, nonetheless, jammed with political types, including Jose Luis (Linggoy) Alcuaz, former head of the National Telecommunications Commission and a director of the national sweepstakes. What's Linggoy doing these days? "I'm destabilizing full-time," he said. "I'm the only one who will admit...
That cause was an unprecedented resolution to impeach President Ferdinand Marcos on charges that he and his family and friends have enriched themselves at the country's expense. The action was sparked by a report in the San Jose Mercury-News, a California daily newspaper, that the Marcos clan has invested some $766 million in real estate in the U.S. and Europe. Marcos' party, which controls the Batasan, easily defeated the motion before the committee. But the President was not relishing his victory. "It's hard to just laugh off these things when you're hurt," he said. "It makes...
...centuries of economic isolation. Their tariff walls will gradually be dismantled, and the two countries will take on both the risks and rewards of in creased trade with their neighbors. For an assessment of what this change will mean for the economies of Spain and Portugal, TIME invited Jose Luis Leal, Spain's Minister of the Economy in 1979 and 1980, to the Madrid meeting of its European Board of Economists. His conclusion: Spain and Portugal might suffer a few short-run shocks from E.G. membership but would ultimately benefit. Leal admitted, though, that the two nations were "jumping into...