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Much of the confusion is due to the military government that ruled Argentina from 1976 until last year. Says Hector Valle, who served on a commission that has been probing the debt question: "What happened was, of course, that the former regime didn't keep any close reckoning of what it spent." Among the sketchily recorded outlays was an estimated $5 billion used for the 1982 Falklands war. Earlier disbursements of nearly $6 billion may have been lavished on such items as procurement of military hardware and the movement of troops. Adding to the confusion is the fact that...
...example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when he was Edo's age. The boy might be moved by Diego's plight, but just at the moment he is involved with a girl revolutionary he smuggled across the Austro-Italian border. Alvaro (Hector Alterio), his sexuality dampened by illness, his ego padded by wry self-awareness, endures, but only as accompanist to the boy when he sets forth on a soloist's career, still blithely unaware of the damage he has done...
...however, call this estimate inflated, arguing that the degree of displacement is small. By and large, undocumented immigrants have menial, low-paying jobs in restaurants, hotels or factories, or work in the fields. "They take lousy jobs that American workers do not want," says M.I.T. Economics Professor Michael Piore. Hector, an undocumented worker in Phoenix, has achieved a comfortable middle-class life for his family-three color television sets, two freezers and two cars-by putting in long days as a $4.75-an-hour dishwasher. "Anybody can do my job," he says. "But the difference is this: I come...
Incoming Dean of Student Affairs Eugene Lowe announced on May 3 that departing Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Hector Delgado, a Hispanic, would not be replaced...
...WASHINGTON they may be just another row of dominoes to protect from communism, but the people of El Salvador have suffered worse evils than toppling over Dr. Hector Silva, former director of health in Eastern El Salvador, has been fighting the suffering of the Salvadorans for many years, first as a government health official, and now as an exile. Silva spoke at Harvard Thursday night along with two doctors from the committee for Human and Health Rights on the predicament of the Salvadorans. The doctors were quick to blame the Salvadoran government and implicate U S administrators supporting that regime...