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...embrace. Sanchez’s plan involved exporting some of Bolivia’s abundant natural gas to willing buyers in Mexico and California. The idea met stiff resistance from the Bolivian population, who scoffed at the notion that the gas pipeline would need to pass through the Chilean coast, since the coastline in question was part of Bolivia before it was lost to Chile in a war fought between 1879-1883. This troublingly isolationist stripe of the Bolivian masses was pointedly at odds with the personality and ambition of president Sanchez, the 73-year-old, American-educated former mining...
...more positive spin. "I left a functioning, growing economy," he insisted to TIME. "Our current crisis simply makes people remember how good things were when I was President." And as if to highlight his revived potency, the sports-car enthusiast announced last week that he and his wife, Chilean TV celebrity Cecilia Bolocco, 37, are expecting their first child. Said Menem: "I always win." --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Uki Goni/Buenos Aires
...more positive spin. "I left a functioning, growing economy," he insisted to Time. "Our current crisis simply makes people remember how good things were when I was President." And as if to highlight his revived potency, the sports-car enthusiast announced last week that he and his wife, Chilean TV celebrity Cecilia Bolocco, 37, are expecting their first child. Says Menem: "I always win."- By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Uki Goni/Buenos Aires Gulf War I Claimants: Frozen out? U.S.A. Twelve years ago, during the first Gulf War, marine pilot Clifford Acree was tortured by Saddam Hussein's henchmen...
...kitchens, local chef Jimmy Chok opened Salt Restaurant at 94 Amoy Street, tel: (65) 6223 1266, a no-frills fusion eatery known for top-notch nosh. Chok's signature roast rack of lamb with garlic mash and jus persille is the highlight of the menu, while the steamed Chilean sea bass with preserved Chinese cabbage is a local favorite...
DIED. ROBERTO MATTA ECHAURREN, 91, Chilean surrealist known as Matta, whose hallucinatory paintings heavily influenced such artists as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko; in Tarquinia, Italy. His eerie mutants and globs of clashing color were, he said, "the subconscious in its burning, liquid state...