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When it was founded 16 months ago, DNAX of Palo Alto, Calif., easily raised $5.5 million. The company, though, is now spending nearly $4 million annually on research, and it does not expect to see any profits for at least another six or seven years. Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni, the founder and acting president of DNAX, admits that he expects to find it difficult to raise additional capital and that he may eventually be forced to sell out to a larger partner...
...peacefully, without arms," protested one of the candidates. "I don't understand." Suddenly, a red tear-gas canister landed in the street, scattering the group of journalists who had accompanied the candidates. Sniper fire popped like firecrackers a block away. Finally, the three presidential candidates?Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre and Gustavo Anzueto Vielman?offered to go alone to present their grievances to the authorities. The candidates never made it to the presidential palace. Instead, they were taken to police headquarters and lectured by Police Chief General German Chupina for almost an hour...
...Anibal Guevara Rodriguez, the latest officer to represent the mainstream of the conservatives who have controlled the country for 27 years. Two other conservative groups are contesting the election, as is a coalition formed by the Christian Democrats, the nation's major moderate party, whose candidate is Attorney Alejandro Maldonado. More than 200 Christian Democratic Party members have been murdered since 1980, mostly by right-wing death squads. The leftists have no candidate. TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter accompanied the moderates for a day on their unusual-and frightening-campaign trail. His report...
...Alejandro Bendaha, Ambassador Alternate Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the United Nations New York City...
...latest escalation in warfare is also casting a shadow over Guatemala's presidential election, which is scheduled for March 7. The army and the government have agreed on their candidate: conservative Brigadier General Anibál Guevara, a former Defense Minister. His main opponents are Alejandro Maldonado, a lawyer and former Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mario Sandóval Alarcón, an outspoken right-winger who sports a pearl-handled revolver and has threatened that if elected his government would kill 1,000 "Communists" a week...