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...most can only dream of owning a condominium or a house. Statistics from the Concilio Hispano de Cambridge, a social service organization for Hispanic residents, show that 16 per cent of the immigrants live in "overcrowded" conditions--more than one person per room. "Housing is very tough to find," Hector Miranda, director of the Concilio Hispano, says. "Many people originally staying with family and friends may end up moving to Waltham or other communities because of the housing crunch," he adds. And the Cambridge Housing Authority lacks bilingual workers, he says...
...economy, meanwhile, has come to a virtual halt. The wave of kidnapings and terrorism has frightened away investment. The result: 30% unemployment and runaway inflation. Warns Accountant Hector Figueros of San Salvador: "If there is no economic assistance, the country will collapse." Washington has offered $50 million in financial aid. While admitting that the outlook is bleak, State Department officials profess some heavily guarded optimism. Last week, for example, they were gratified by the junta's promise to set a timetable for "popular and free elections" within 30 days. Observes a Latin America expert: "The government has survived...
...blistered their feet. Some abandoned their shoes and wrapped their feet in rags soaked in the little water they had. The next night, three men were found near Highway 85. They insisted they were alone, apparently afraid of acknowledging they had left others behind. Says Border Patrolman Hector Ochoa: "If they had told us the truth, we could have saved most of them." Not until Yolanda Estela Hernandez, 20, was found beside the highway the next afternoon did authorities learn that others were in the desert...
...author turned out to be Hector Villalón, 50, a shadowy Argentinian who was a confidant of Eva Perón in her heyday in the 1950s. After Dictator Juan Perón was toppled in 1955, Villalón remained a trusted adviser on foreign affairs during Perdón's exile in Spain. During the past few years, Villalón has operated out of Paris, where he deals in oil and commodities. One of his associates is Christian Bourguet, a leftist lawyer who in the 1970s became a close friend of Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh, then...
...Hector Wilfred ("Harry") Jayawardene, 63, brother of Sri Lanka President Junius Richard Jayawardene, is chairman of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, an organization that promotes democracy and protection of human rights. In 1979 he was chairman of a UNESCO conference on human rights in Bangkok. Educated at the Royal College in Colombo and Ceylon Law College, he has been an attorney since 1941, and became one of the youngest men named to the prestigious position of Queen's Counsel. Jayawardene is a devout Buddhist and an ardent supporter of wildlife conservation...