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...fiesta of freedom, thousands of Filipinos paraded through Manila's Makati financial district under exploding fireworks and a shower of yellow confetti. On the sidewalks, vendors did a brisk business in T shirts emblazoned with CORY. Car horns honked in chorus. Occasional placards bobbed and dipped in the crowd. REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD, read one. JUST LIBERATED, read another. As cars crawled along teeming Ayala Avenue, men, women and children, priests, nuns and soldiers stopped to greet each other with a salutation that somehow captured the moment: "Happy New Year...
...seemed more like a fiesta than a state occasion, a jubilant celebration with blue skies and sunny faces. As platoons of schoolchildren paraded through the streets waving tiny blue-and-white Salvadoran flags, vendors sliced tangy strips of green papaya for hungry onlookers. The sizzle of hot dogs on the grill mixed with the blare of Chuck Mangione jazz over the loudspeakers. When each of the 45 foreign delegations was introduced, the velodrome in downtown San Salvador reverberated with the applause of 6,000 spectators. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, his placid expression breaking into a grin, received...
Hart's campaign last week was a string of photo opportunities. He tooled around San Diego harbor in an experimental boat and climbed into the gondola of a bright yellow-and-blue hot-air balloon at a balloon fiesta in Albuquerque (gusty winds kept the craft from getting off the ground). In speeches Hart presents himself as the thoughtful leader discussing issues of the future, delivering detailed proposals on voting procedures in Grand Junction, Colo., on women's rights in Albuquerque, on nuclear-arms control in Santa Barbara...
...August, the country stages a massive celebration--the Marimba Fiesta. Summers in El Salvador stay temperate and dry, with late-afternoon showers lasting just long enough to bring the temperature down from...
...Fiesta Bowl...