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...even, to use the '60s phrase, a combo. It is a clever marketing idea: the boys are mere employees of a promoter who replaces each one before he turns 16. "Menudo is a formula, and we must take care not to break it," says Edgardo Díaz, 31, Menudo's inventor and honcho, who manages to seem both cynical and ingenuous. "If we play it cool, I know, I feel, that Menudo will be successful around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Puerto Rican Pop Music Machine | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...Language and cultural maintenance, which seeks to enhance students' mastery of their first language while also teaching them English. In Hispanic communities, the language training is often accompanied by courses in ethnic heritage. Argues Miami Attorney Manuel Díaz, a vice chairman of the Spanish American League Against Discrimination: "Cultural diversity makes this country strong. It is not a disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Against a Confusion of Tongues | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...Sandinista invasion in order to consolidate his own power. Some Hondurans also worry that U.S.-trained and -equipped Salvadoran troops could one day turn on Honduras to settle border conflicts that helped trigger a war between the two countries in 1969. Says Efraín Díaz Arrivillaga, the sole Christian Democratic deputy in the 82-member Honduran Congress: "The U.S. emphasis on giving money to the military weakens already weak civilian institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in the Crossfire | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

John M. Dodson, a Pinkerton's detective AZ agency computer specialist, was watching the Hilton's lower-level VIP entrance from the seventh floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Then there is the identity problem, which most candidates meet at one time or another. An elderly man in Juana Díaz cheered Connally lustily under the impression that he was Kennedy. Baker took no chances: as he made his rounds, a spotter moved ahead of him in the crowds to make sure that people shook the right hand. "El de los pantalones amarillos, "he repeated to onlookers (He's the one in the yellow pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Of Mavi and Morcillas | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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