Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour began in two outposts of political stability: Panama and Costa Rica. After giving a sympathetic but noncommittal hearing to Panamanian pleas for economic aid, the commission flew west to Costa Rica's capital, San Jose. Costa Rican officials expressed their concern that their country, the only successful long-lasting democracy in the region, faced a serious threat of subversion from Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Said President Luis Alberto Monge: "Never have our people been more afraid...
...right has also had trouble getting organized for next spring's presidential elections. Says former President Jose Napoleon Duarte, a Christian Democrat who is now the front-running contender: "[The death squads] want to stop the reforms. They want to stop the democratic process. And they want to stop the Christian Democrats from coming to power...
Reported by Martha Honey/San Jose and Peter Stoler/Tegucigalpa
...renowned scholar at San Jose State but obsessive enough in side jobs (pumping gas, selling children's shoes, tending a chicken farm) so that Ueberroth's friends predicted his eventual success (in aviation, travel, hotels) and ultimate wealth. His own itinerary: from ramp agent for nonscheduled airlines to office worker to office manager to 22-year-old vice president to failure out on his own to spectacular success, heading First Travel Corp., second only to American Express among U.S. travel giants. Ueberroth's method, besides having been bred for problem solving, might be described as a kind of enlightened stinginess...
...Roman Catholic churches. In defiance of the regime, organizers billed it as a Day of National Sorrow in Aquino's memory. Standing under a Philippine flag at half-mast, representatives of the moderate opposition, the church, labor unions and Aquino's family demanded Marcos' resignation. Declared Jose Diokno, a former Senator and human rights leader who was imprisoned with Aquino in the 1970s: "This day marks the beginning of the end for Marcos...