Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teen-agers cannot find work. High school? "It is a long ride to the next town, where there is a high school," Santel explains, "and a lot of them just don't go." Some of them get into trouble. Even in this sleepy hamlet, far from sinful San Juan, police recently staged a drug raid, arresting eight suspects and confiscating some narcotics. "But it is not bad here," Santel says. "It is a better time than before because of the food stamps. People can eat a lot of meat now and they own their little houses...
...hardly the kind of New Year's celebration that Spain's King Juan Carlos had in mind. Early last week 3,800 workers in Madrid's rapid-transit system called an illegal strike, leaving the capital without subway service and causing giant traffic jams. The strikers demanded half of a recent fare increase as a $600-per-person wage raise. Thousands of workers in other industries staged sympathy demonstrations that police broke up with tear...
...last years did not live up to his parsimonious image. Eager to avoid social unrest, the dictator's economic counselors allowed officially sanctioned unions (sindicatos) to win wage increases-30% in 1974 and 28% in 1975-that far exceeded government guidelines. Spain's new Finance Minister, Juan Miguel Villar Mir, recently confessed to the Spanish Parliament, "In 1975 we created our inflation entirely by ourselves...
Among the major beneficiaries of O.T.C.s will be people who live in heartland areas that have hitherto had few or no direct flights overseas. A scheduled flight from Omaha to Trinidad, for example, can take 16 hours, with stopovers in Chicago, Miami, San Juan, Kingston and often Barbados. An O.T.C. trip cuts it to four hours-in addition to the savings in cash. Milwaukee's Odyssey Travel is chartering Pan Am flights nonstop to the Caribbean from Des Moines, Indianapolis, St. Louis and other Midwestern cities. Marvin Smith, vice president of Boston's American International Travel Service...
...long a wait is arguable. Inflation is now running at a rate of about 300% a year, and even the affluent middle class is living from day to day on rapidly dwindling buying power. Terrorism from both the right and left has claimed more than 1,500 lives since Juan Perón's death in July...