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...confirmed he is suffering from inoperable stomach cancer, the Salvadoran President has ignored physicians' orders to limit his work load to three hours a day; he routinely puts in seven or more. Last week he addressed the National Assembly, met with church and business leaders, and conferred with visiting Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. This week Duarte will return to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to undergo chemotherapy, but he wants to be in El Salvador when the end comes. Says a close adviser: "He knows this is the final stage of his life. But rather than...
...gadgetry and fashion trends. Bikers spent $700 million on clothes and accessories last year, a 17% increase over the year before. "Ten years ago, you saw cycling clothing as a pair of lumpy wool shorts and a wool jersey," says Steve Ready of the National Bicycle Dealers Association in Costa Mesa, Calif. "You could have any color you wanted, as long as it was black." Now, he says, the sport is more "visual." Bikes come in fashion colors -- lilac mist, rosebloom, aquamarine -- with bright jerseys to match. The Lycra shorts with a padded seat, once confined to serious cyclists...
...unrelated case, police discovered Europe's largest-ever stash of hash in a cave near the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar. Air-conditioners and humidifiers maintained the hashish's high quality, and refrigerated trucks took the product to market in France, Britain and West Germany. The operation, police said, was run by Jacques Cannavaggio, a French citizen...
...everyone welcomed Bermudez into the rebels' top political ranks. One Assembly delegate, in voting against Bermudez, scrawled "No military dictatorships" across his ballot. Seven regional commanders of the contras' southern front, which operates near the border with Costa Rica, announced they were pulling out of the Resistance. In a bitterly worded communique, they said, "The struggle against the Managua dictatorship is ill served by placing in the highest military command of the insurgency an ex-colonel of the hated Somocista National Guard...
...more galled by Managua's actions than Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, whose peace plan remains the framework for the now suspended Sandinista-contra talks. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Arias passed word to Managua last Monday that he believed the contras could again be brought to the negotiating table by Aug. 1 if the Sandinistas would make a conciliatory gesture. Back came the message that Arias' idea was a good one. Two hours later, however, the Sandinistas closed La Prensa and Radio Catolica and expelled Melton...