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...life. Dennis Harvey, ringmaster, welder, electrician: "I'm more settled here than anywhere, strange as it sounds. It's like joining a family." Moira Loter, bareback rider, aerialist, jackie-of-all-trades: "I've lived in a house. You always want to go back on the road." Carlos Bautista, whose family, when not being catapulted off a teeterboard, performs, according to the alliterative program, as "jaunty juggling juggernauts displaying dazzling dexterity": "This is what my father taught me to do. This is what I do." Bautista's daughter Patricia...
...centers vary widely in price, but most cost far less than a private nurse, who might charge $20 an hour. California's San Juan Bautista Child Development Center, which gets financial help from United Way and the city of San Jose, has fees ranging from nothing to $20 a day, depending on the parents' income. Sniffles Medical Day Care Center in suburban Minneapolis, which serves an affluent clientele, charges $9 an hour...
...block from the fault, Joe Crevea, 70, and three of his friends on San Juan Bautista's volunteer fire department sit for hours on the "liars' bench" in front of the shoe-repair store. Old Joe guesses he has been in 100 quakes but never walks up to view the fault, fearing the fire alarm may scream while he is gone. His nonchalance is widely shared. "It is like living next to the Mississippi River," says a San Juan Bautista housewife...
Some of the natives are not above making a few bucks off their adversity. At the Fault Line Restaurant in San Juan Bautista, the previous owner called himself Sam Andreas and offered free meals to patrons on the premises when a quake of 3.5 or better struck. Becky McGovern, owner of the Mariposa House Restaurant in San Juan Bautista, wants to have an "earthquake festival" along the fault to attract visitors this summer. Some years ago in Hollister, Newspaper Publisher Millard Hoyle suggested an earthquake carnival of his own. It called for, among other things, a macabre ride...
Early one morning last week, Philippine Brigadier General Teodulfo Bautista, accompanied by 34 of his men (including five colonels), strode trustingly into the tiny marketplace of Patikul on Jolo Island, some 600 miles south of Manila. Bautista, 49, had come to Patikul for peace talks with Osman Salleh, a local chieftain of the Moro National Liberation Front, which has been fighting a civil war in the southern islands for nearly five years. Salleh had hinted that his 150 men were ready to join the government's side. As he greeted Bautista with a smile, a harsh voice shouted, "Dapal...