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...territory's independence. The accord is expected to be signed by the U.S., South Africa, Angola and Cuba at a ceremony in Brazzaville. Though a hopeful start, the accord leaves Angola's underlying dispute unresolved: the tribal conflict that pits some 310,000 fighters loyal to Marxist President Jose Eduardo dos Santos against Jonas Savimbi's tenacious UNITA guerrilla movement...
...Since then Washington has tried and failed to force Noriega out with economic sanctions and to shift power to a civilian government headed by ousted President Eric Arturo Delvalle. Now, it seems, the State Department is focusing on a different man and a different strategy. The man: Lieut. Colonel Eduardo Herrera Hassan, a 20-year veteran of the Panamanian Defense Forces and a former Ambassador to Israel. The strategy: to encourage a coup within the Panamanian military...
...have long underestimated the Spanish-speaking audience, thus giving the networks less incentive to program for it. Equally problematic is the dearth of Hispanic writers and producers who have the experience or clout to get their projects made. "We're not on the inside, working, developing our craft," says Eduardo Cervantes, a vice president of current programs at Columbia Pictures Television and one of the few Hispanics in a top studio position. Most so- called Hispanic shows are written by Anglos, and as a result depend heavily on outsiders' stereotypes. "Mr. and Mrs. Producer," says Rodriguez, "come home every night...
Perhaps the most gifted is Eduardo Machado, 35, a Cuban expatriate who arrived in the U.S. at age eight, speaking no English, when his family fled Castro's Cuba. Brought up in Los Angeles, he now divides his time between a house in suburban Pasadena, Calif., and an apartment in Manhattan. A would-be actor, he began writing plays when a therapist suggested he compose an imaginary letter of forgiveness to his mother. Among his best works: The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, an evocation of the complex caste system in Cuba six decades ago, and Once Removed, which captures...
...touted by the Reagan Administration as the man who would bring democracy to El Salvador. But Duarte's populist concern with reform soon buckled under the frustrations of managing an intractable war. "It might not be his fault that there still is no peace," says fellow Christian Democrat Eduardo Molina Olivares, "but people blame...