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...chief coin curator for Spain's National Archaeology Museum, said that limited, preliminary evidence suggested that the pieces of eight recovered from the ship were minted in 1803 in the then-Spanish colony of Peru. "The coins show us that the ship had recently left the port of El Callao in Lima. Of that, there is no doubt," she said. Historical documents that Spain presented today show that the Mercedes left El Callao in April...
...guitarists like Cuban Kelvis Ochoa and Brazilian Leo Minax to make late nights at the Berlín into high-gloss carnavales. And every other Monday you can hear ex-New Yorker Bob Sands coax a clean, modern sound out of his 17-piece big band. Jacometrezo 4; metro Callao; www.cafeberlin.net
...most important component of education? Will memorization help students more than instruction in critical thought and values? I doubt it. But of course that is where the money is. If the government paid for courses on kite flying, every school would teach the flying of kites. FRED FINK Callao, Peru...
...nightmare, and a beautiful dream," said Willis, and decided to do it again some time. Last week it was the natives of Apia, Western Samoa, who were star tled, as in over the reef came Willis, two cats and raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru. "I wanted to show that a 70-year-old could do what men years younger would never dream of trying and couldn't dp anyway," said he, and prepared to sail on another 2,700 miles to Sydney, Australia...
...flags use only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their ranks; but when Kaiser tried to do so, workers seized the plant and threatened to burn it along with management hostages trapped inside. Peru's Lima-Callao tramcar company, which recently pulled out of bankruptcy, is not permitted by the unions to fire anyone, although it has four workers for every real...