Word: javier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just outside Jovellanos there's Estelle, chatty, about 35, and her 10-year-old Javier, who jump in at a dusty corner. Estelle sighs and laughs as she gets in and says hello. Had they been waiting long? Yes, yes, she says, they'd been waiting an hour and a half. They're going to a town called Australia, 20 minutes away. "Why is there a town in Cuba called Australia?" we ask. Estelle doesn't know. She turns to Javier. Javier has no idea. She shrugs and smiles...
...drop Estelle and Javier in Australia and pick up a family just outside of town. Grandfather, mother, daughter. They had been visiting a friend at the hospital and are going where we're going, to Playa Giron, home of the Cuban monument to the heroes of the Bay of Pigs. Our merengue tape, bought at a gas station, tinkles quietly from the speakers. We offer them--we offer everyone--water, cookies, crackers. They decline, and like most riders, this family says nothing unless we speak first; they don't even talk to one another. They watch the countryside pass, content...
...city's worst since the 1930s. But the bad cops of that era, who took bribes of French champagne from madams and cash from bootleggers and gamblers, almost seem like nostalgic Humphrey Bogart types compared with the officers who ruined the life of a 19-year-old kid named Javier Francisco Ovando...
None of the warnings seem to faze Arturo Rodriquez, 21, who has traveled three days in a bus from Chiapas with his cousin Javier and two buddies for a chance at a new life. "I'd rather die than go back," he says. "I can make as much in a month in the fields"--about $1,100 after taxes--"as in a year back home...
...officially time to wage some peace in Kosovo. NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana announced Sunday that with the Serb troops out of Kosovo ? ahead of schedule, no less ? "I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign." President Clinton assured CNN it was "a very happy day." But on the ground in Kosovo, the early signs are already making the push-button war look like the easy part. Across the province, KLA troops ? in full camouflage and still fully armed despite agreements to the contrary ? are parading in full view of NATO troops and making everybody nervous...