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...their culture and lifestyle. Since the Sandinistas took power, escalating clashes between the natives and the revolutionary government have slowly developed into something approaching a full-scale Indian war. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 Miskitos have taken up arms against the Sandinistas, operating from Honduran and Costa Rican bases with covert U.S. support. Hundreds of Indians have died in the conflict, while an unknown number have been imprisoned, often without charges. Some 20,000 Indians have been forced by the Sandinistas into relocation camps such as Tasba Pri; another 21,000 have fled to Honduras and Costa Rica...
...Sunday's west coast soccer action, the U.S. team is tied for first place in group D after blanking Costa Rica 3-0 on Sunday...
...regarded as a pioneer by the other paddlers: Sheila Conover, 21, a Californian and sometime student at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., the most gifted natural athlete on the squad; Shirley Dery, 22, born in the U.S. of Hungarian parents, who trained until last year with the powerful Hungarian team; and Leslie Klein, 29, from Concord, Mass., another kayak gypsy who converted from white-water kayaking. Klein spent years "living out of a car in soaking wet clothes, eating gritty oatmeal." Her life is somewhat more conventional now; she is married to J.T. Kearney, a phys-ed professor...
...last year and $7 in 1980. Says Club Director Jota Martins: "We don't think our prices are high. They may be so for the average Brazilian, but the average Brazilian does not come here." Nonetheless, travelers can find some buys in South American countries. At La Costa Verde restaurant near Lima, a leisurely seafood lunch with drinks and wine still costs $14 a diner, the same as in 1980. Popular Brazilian agate ashtrays that went for $8.60 four years ago now cost less than $6, and the $1.50 that it takes to buy a bottle of good Argentine...
...eight other teams--West Germany, Morocco, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Egypt, the United States, and Costa Rica--will play all of their games on the west coast, either at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena or at Stanford University in Palo Alto...