Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That effort seems well worth it to the boat people's artists, who find their new freedom thoroughly rewarding. Guitarist Juan de Dios Jose was denied a musician's license in Cuba because he refused to join the Communist Party. In Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, he plays gigs at local restaurants and is completing training in auto-body repair. "It's like a dream come true, being able to say what I feel," he comments. Says New York-based Novelist Reinaldo Arenas, who drove 26 hours to the festival to avoid any chance of being...
...almost fatalistic in his insistence on returning, convinced that he was destined to play a crucial role in the post-Marcos transition. "I'm committed to return," he told a friend from childhood. "If fate falls that I should be killed, so be it." Aquino liked to recall Jose Rizal, a Filipino patriot who returned from exile before he was executed by a Spanish firing squad in 1896. Rizal's death sparked the Philippine war of independence...
Perez de Cuellar s visit to Angola later in the week was also mildly encouraging. Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos told the Secretary-General that a Cuban troop withdrawal might be possible under certain conditions. Among his demands: that South Africa halt its military support for guerrillas of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and agree to Namibian independence...
...should children be the only ones having fun?" asks William Gallagher, who started an adult computer camp with his wife Deborah at their home in Oakland, Calif. This summer the couple moved their operation to the 1,200-acre Silverado resort in Napa Valley and opened workshops in San Jose, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix and Lake Tahoe. "We teach our guests what software to buy and what computer will fit their needs," says Gallagher. "We want them to be able to defend themselves in the computer world...
...want to be the banker for the electronics industry," says Roger Smith, Silicon Valley's president. His bank, with headquarters in a San Jose industrial building, will offer services like equipment financing for new companies. High Tech National Bank will go after the microchip money brought home by electronics entrepreneurs to the Silicon Valley suburb Los Gatos (pop. 28,000). Local residents include Steven Jobs, 28, chairman of Apple Computer, who is worth an estimated $200 million...