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...Sara O. Garcia, a Mexican-American and former school teacher who is now studying part-time at the Harvard School of Education, is trying to gain greater recognition for bilingual education. Garcia, who is endorsed by the CCA, has made that program the focus of her campaign, though she maintains she is not a single-issue candidate...
...American leaders have gone on a lectern- pounding campaign for concessions from their lenders. Brazilian President Jose Sarney, among others, took the appeal to the U.N. General Assembly. Declared Sarney: "Brazil will not pay its foreign debt with recession, not with unemployment, nor with hunger." Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez, whose country owes $14 billion, has threatened to pull out of the IMF unless the agency gives his country more breathing room. Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took a similar, if less militant, stand. Even before the deadly earthquake hit last month, his country was beginning...
...Blue Jays walked Pat Sheridan intentionally to pitch to Balboni. But Balboni, who set a team record with 36 homers this season, hit a blooper into center field that fell between the outstretched gloves of shortstop Tony Fernandez, second baseman Damaso Garcia and center fielder Lloyd Moseby...
...experts suggested that the greatest danger to the babies during their ordeal had been cold. Mexican doctors speculated that dying adults in the wreckage near them had shielded the infants from the chill and passed on the margin of warmth necessary for survival. In any case, said Dina Villanueva Garcia, chief of the neonatology department of Juarez Hospital, "it was extraordinary that they survived." In all, about 15 infants and 166 adults had been rescued at Juarez Hospital by week's end, and two babies had been rescued at another hospital after nearly nine days of entombment...
...Bertoldo Garcia Cruz, a car mechanic, had just taken his son to Public School No. 3 on Avenida Chapultepec. "We were in the school's main office when everything around us, four floors, went down. I helped take out four bodies, mutilated, all 14-year-olds. I took one out who was injured, but maybe he'll live...