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Last week the World Bank agreed to lend Mexico $400 million to repair earthquake damage. But the country still needs an additional $6 billion to meet payments on its now $98 billion debt. De la Madrid recently met with TIME Assistant Managing Editor Richard Duncan and Mexico City Bureau Chief Harry Kelly. During the hour-long interview, De la Madrid, 51, appeared surprisingly optimistic about his country's future. Excerpts...
...giant desert drawings known as the Nazca Lines were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians, the National Institute of Culture accused her of inadvertently aiding "neo-Nazism" to discredit the country's culture. MacLaine was dismayed. During filming, locals took to calling her La Grinka (a gringa who seeks to become an Inca), and at a press conference last week she sought to make amends: "I profoundly believe that Peru is the repository of a splendiferous culture. If there were extraterrestrial beings that had visited the earth, Peru would be the place they would choose...
Until his death in 1980, Cy Taillon was known to the initiated as the "World's Greatest Rodeo Announcer." Around the circuit, which could extend from Puyallup, Wash., to Baton Rouge, La., and into Madison Square Garden itself, no exhibition of bronco riding or calf roping seemed quite complete without Taillon's booming, animated commentary. He became something more than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel...
...attempting to blow up an El Al plane leaving London's Heathrow Airport on April 17, British authorities advised their counterparts in Berlin to arrest another Palestinian named Ahmed Nawaf Mansur Hasi. Inside Hasi's apartment, West German detectives found what appeared to be a sketch of the La Belle discothèque, where an explosion three weeks earlier had killed two people and left 230 wounded. They also discovered that Hasi was Hindawi's brother, that he had visited Libya at least once since moving to Berlin in 1975, and that even though unemployed, he was inexplicably in possession...
...again. He was shy and withdrawn, so he took refuge where he was most comfortable, at the piano, playing Chopin mazurkas. Wanda listened with a fascination that grew in intensity as, over the next few months, she heard him in both New York and Italy. At Milan's La Scala, Horowitz performed his signature concerto, the Rachmaninoff Third. "Then he came to visit my father, and, as they say, I was swept off my feet." They were married in December 1933 in Milan. She knew no Russian, he no Italian, so they spoke French, the language they use at home...