Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While President of Costa Rica, Carazo was instrumental in forming the United-Nations-sponsored University For Peace. Based in San Jose, Costa Rica, the school is a masters degree program for liberal arts graduates who are interested in international relations. Carazo is in Boston to oversee the formation of a New England branch of the University For Peace at Emmanuel College...
...rising semiconductor costs. At Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, Calif., the cost of producing a system containing 144 one-megabit memory chips has nearly doubled because the semiconductors have increased in price from $22 to $107. Says Jerry Sugar, president of Classic Technology, a computer-systems maker in San Jose: "I called Washington to protest. Higher chip prices are going to kill the U.S. computer industry." A more likely possibility is that some U.S. computer manufacturers will consider moving their plants to the Far East, where Japanese chips are still being sold cheap despite the agreement...
That brought angry denials from El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Military Commander General Adolfo Blandon. They were embarrassed by the public linkage of Ilopango, where U.S. military advisers are stationed, to the contra flights. Indeed, the spotlight on Ilopango's role as a base for supplying the contras, long an open secret in Central America, brought new problems for Duarte as he struggled with the impact of the Oct. 10 earthquake in the capital of San Salvador that left more than 600 dead and thousands homeless. Duarte last week received a promise of $50 million...
Boston College's Jose Rocha ran a course-record 29:45.3 to win the men's 10,000 meter race, while Boston University's Beth McMacken shattered the women's old 5000-meter mark with her first-place finish...
...last week's arrest of Salas as a "commendable ( accomplishment on the part of our law-enforcement agencies." Salas, 38, was captured outside the Philippine General Hospital after receiving treatment for sinusitis and a goiter condition. He was being helped into a car by Josefina Cruz, his wife, and Jose Concepcion, his driver and bodyguard, when the police closed in to arrest the trio. Officials claim that Salas took part in a 1974 ambush in which five U.S. Navy officers were killed. The government last week charged him with rebellion, a crime punishable by death...