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...Maypole dance. Partners move sideways, taking a long step and hauling the other foot behind. The real fire is down below. Partners can press hips close enough to grind grain, dance a few steps, drift away from each other, then, as the music quickens, come together again. Says Oscar Herrera, 34, a Salvadoran immigrant who directs a San Francisco social-service agency: "The merengue grabs you so much that even if you get tired and soaked in sweat, you can't stop dancing...
...suggestion of high-level Mexican involvement apparently surfaced during the investigation of the February 1985 torture-murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. Last week a Mexican law-enforcement official, Mario Martinez- Herrera, was indicted by a San Diego grand jury looking into the Camarena case. A suspected eyewitness to the murder, Martinez was also, according to the Union, carrying papers detailing a "network of payoffs" that allegedly implicated the Mexican officials. Martinez's lawyer dismissed the report as speculation...
...Saturday afternoon service at the simple clapboard Our Lady of Victory Church was completely Catholic and performed by two priests, although there was no nuptial Mass. Caroline, dressed in a white silk organza gown with cloverleaf appliques designed by Carolina Herrera, arrived in a white limousine with her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, who helped her with her train and patted her back encouragingly before they entered the church. When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best...
...Frank Herrera, president of ICD/ Hearst, which distributes 120 magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Popular Mechanics, says distributors are under growing pressure from Fundamentalist groups. "We're extremely sensitive," he says, "because of the apparent success of the Wildmons and Falwells in putting their own definition on pornography." One recent confrontation took place in Tyler, Texas, where a city ordinance bans nudity below the navel. Local marshals warned stores in the city that the July issue of Cosmopolitan had to be taken off the shelf because of an article showing tummy-tucking operations for chubby women; the local district attorney...
...major piece of judicial business facing the President will be a new inquiry into the murder of her husband, Benigno Aquino Jr., who was killed as he stepped off a plane at Manila International Airport in 1983. Apparently emboldened by Marcos' departure, Manuel Herrera, a prosecutor in the ombudsman's office of the graft and corruption court, came forward last week with fresh details about the case. General Fabian Ver, Marcos' Chief of Staff, and 25 other defendants were charged with conspiracy in the assassination. Herrera recalled a meeting with Marcos before the trial began in which the former President...