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Senior freestyle sprinter Mike Miao has already received an invitation to join the Taiwanese Olympic team to swim the 100 meters, but he won't rule out the chance that he'll make the United States team, to be chosen at the Olympic trials in June. The Taiwanese government recognizes Chinese from both Chinas and anywhere else in the world as citizens of Taiwan, and both the U.S. State Department and the International Olympic Committee have okayed Miao's participation as either an American or a Taiwanese citizen...
Rafael Centeno Montoya, 30, was outraged by the way the Sandinistas treated Pope . ohn Paul II during his visit to Managua last March. So Centeno left his family, one horse and five mules and joined the rebels. "Pecos Bill," 29, abandoned his 27,000-acre ranch and 2,500 cattle because, as a former second lieutenant in Dictator Anastasio Somoza's National Guard, he feared reprisals after the Sandinistas took over. Maria Cristina Cuadra, 17, first ran into trouble after she was caught pulling down pictures of Revolutionary Heroes Augusto César Sandino and Carlos Fonseca. Afraid...
...momentum toward unity has not continued. The main stumbling block appears to be Pastora, who insists that the F.D.N. purge its military leadership of all former National Guardsmen. Pastora also wants to be recognized as undisputed leader of the contras. As he told TIME, "The other organizations have to join us, operate by our laws and under our political beliefs...
...exercise or cats. It does not tell readers how to solve Rubik's Cube, make a million dollars in real estate, or shed 20 Ibs. in ten days. Instead it deals with the mundane world of corporate management, and its authors, two business consultants, never expected to join James Michener and Jane Fonda on the bestseller lists...
News executives from 25 nations join to fight curbs on reporting