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...local press or silence it. "When you are a journalist living practically on starvation level," Espina-Varona explains, "and you are faced with a fat envelope of cash on the one hand, or a gun on the other, you're going to take the easy way out." Says Sheila Coronel, executive director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism: "There is a lot of corruption, so much so that the public suspects that when a journalist attacks someone, it is because he is being paid...
...irksome reporter strikes some media targets as a much easier and cheaper solution than going through the country's notoriously inefficient judicial system. "Some people have the feeling that the only way they can get back at critical or, in their view, unfair reporting is by killing journalists," says Coronel. "They feel that there are no other mechanisms to find redress for their grievances, whether those grievances are legitimate...
...testimony, the justices ruled, violated the defendants' constitutional protections against self-incrimination. If allowed to stand, the decision would deal a fatal blow to the prosecution. To many it was seen as leading to Ver's acquittal. Ver's lawyer, Antonio Coronel, said that he intends to move for dismissal of the charges, declaring that "you don't defend yourself against nothing." A possible appeal by the prosecution is under study...
...territory. The extent of contra successes remained difficult to determine. The rebels claim to control nearly 6,000 sq. mi. of Nicaraguan territory, with strong support from the peasantry, and to operate freely in an additional 2,700-sq.mi. area. But one of the F.D.N.'s leaders, Edgar Chamorro Coronel, declared to TIME last week that "to achieve a victory we would need not 8,000 fighters, but 25,000, and people to rise up in greater numbers." Nonetheless, the contras can cause trouble for the Sandinistas so long as the U.S. continues to supply covert aid. In Nicaragua...
CUERNAVACA, April 30-From the vantage point of the Americans who gather daily for coffee and gossip at the Vienna and its two sister cafes lining Avenida Guerrero opposite the town square, little has happened to distinguish the last few months in Mexico from any others. "Coronel" Sanlers has made his debut treating Cuernavaca to Real Kentucky Fried Chicken at his new concession snuggled between Burger Boy and the snappy Cafe Universal, the weather has grown hotter and the Easter Weck crowds have come and gone. None of these things are surprising. American cultural expansion, hot weather and the passing...