Word: jose
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Nevertheless, Mrs. Reagan forged ahead with a full schedule over the past two weeks, including a state dinner for Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte. When the White House announced on Friday that the First Lady would be entering Bethesda for a biopsy, she was in New Hampshire, urging a conference of foster grandparents to get involved in the fight against teenage drug abuse. The First Lady declined to make any comment on her pending test. Said Conference Participant Shireen Tilly, executive director of the Friends Program: "She put on a brave front and a warm, gracious...
...search for peace continued last week. In El Salvador, President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with representatives of Marxist-led guerrillas; they failed to sign a cease-fire but agreed to keep talking. More surprising, negotiators for the Guatemalan government and leftist rebels conferred in Madrid. They issued a terse statement claiming, "Both sides consider that the climate of the talks was satisfactory." That was the first hint that either side might be willing to settle a brutal guerrilla war that has claimed 30,000 lives in the past 16 years...
Fighting recurrent bouts of triple-digit inflation, Brazil has accumulated an unsupportable foreign debt of $110 billion. In February, President Jose Sarney declared that the country would stop making interest payments on its medium- and long-term commercial bank loans, a stunning action that sent shock waves through the international banking community. The financial crisis has forced Brazil to curb imports and go all out on the export front. So far, the results have been unexpectedly impressive. In July alone Brazil achieved a record monthly trade surplus of $1.4 billion. The Brazilians still rely on sales of such basic goods...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...
Sparked by utilityman Jose Oquendo's three-run homer, the St. Louis Cardinals blanked the San Francisco Giants, 6-0, behind the shutout pitching of Danny Cox last night in Game 7 of the National League Playoffs...