Word: tegucigalpa
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...that these borders are perfectly defensible, especially for a country that has been receiving billions in American aid. Krauthammer should face the fact that peace will not come until Israel ends its military occupation, economic strangling and blatant human-rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza. NASIM FARACH Tegucigalpa, Honduras...
...economically and militarily, it will have to take a backseat spiritually. No one, it seems, wants a superpower Pope. But what about a Third World Pontiff? Talk of a Latin American has grown. Aside from Castrillon Hoyos, the buzz focuses on Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. John Paul is the first non-Italian Pope since the early 1500s. A Honduran successor looks like a stretch...
total of 20 boxes of food, clothing, medicine,candles and blankets to Honduras Travel, a travelagency in Chelsea that has arranged for free cargospace on a plane going to Tegucigalpa, Honduras.The supplies will arrive in Honduras today...
...refer to governments by their capital cities. When I'm discussing affairs of state, I always refer to Russia as Moscow and France as Paris; the exception I make is Honduras, because even a student of foreign affairs can run into trouble now and then trying to say Tegucigalpa. A high school friend of mine back in Missouri who had once hoped to go into the Foreign Service taught me that it also helps to use the word movement a lot. He still says things like, "Getting any movement from Jefferson City on that motor-vehicle renewal...
...homosexuals, the virus flourished for years until political turmoil and negative publicity shut down the trade. But in many places the danger has yet to register. "If a young prostitute is found to have AIDS," says Peter Racine, a counselor who works with Honduran street children in Tegucigalpa, "they send her away to a smaller pueblo, where she continues to work." In Berlin, German streetwalkers are complaining about Polish women pouring into the city and turning unprotected tricks. Naively, the Poles -- laid off from regular jobs and trying to support families -- hope to cash in quickly and return home...