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...region and El Salvador." But some who were not at the dinner expressed the fear that Reagan was still not paying enough attention to the political and social situation. "He said the problem in Central America was political, not military, but all he spoke about was military solutions," noted Jacinto Morales, an official of El Salvador's human rights commission...
Meanwhile, in the desert near Palm Springs, Calif., at the edge of the San Jacinto Mountains, where Hubbard once stalked the sands wearing a cowboy hat, cursing and yelling as he directed Scientology films, security is tight. Guards at the Gilman retreat scrutinize cars moving along a highway past a black iron gate, and security men range amid the cactus, chattering into walkie-talkies. There is a sign that says GOLDEN ERA STUDIOS. The only visible reminder of the former presence is a bronze plaque on a replica of a ship's deck. It is dedicated...
Just 35 miles east of downtown Houston, between Interstate 90 and the San Jacinto River, a hand-lettered sign at the entrance to a state campground reads WELCOME TO TENT CITY, U.S.A. Inside, 100 people have set up housekeeping in tents, cars, campers and trucks. Some have been there for as long as eight months, some stay only a few days. Some are from out of state, but most are former blue-collar workers from the Houston area. Says Jana Williams, 27, who has lived there six months with her husband and ten-month-old baby: "Vigilante groups called...
...clown" who uses "smear tactics." Clements says the attorney general "is an incompetent lawyer" who has lost most of his big cases. Responding, somewhat lamely, that he has won most of those that he appealed, White declares: "The heroes in Texas were at the Alamo and San Jacinto. You've got to fight." Facing Dollar Bill's well-oiled assault, state Democratic leaders are wondering if, like the Texans at the Alamo, White lacks the organization and resources...
...mailed off some cartoons to "a little gutter magazine." The cartoons led to a series of magazine jobs that eventually landed him at the Disney Studios story department, which he quit ("I didn't feel free") after six years. "I was going to raise chickens in the San Jacinto Mountains," he recalls, but a comic-book publisher with rights to Disney characters asked him to work on some ducks...