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...Luisa M. Gonchalzes, COPA's director, said the elderly program usually attracts retired Portuguese speaking...
...October 1987, LaBudde, now 34, persuaded the owner of a Panamanian tuna boat to hire him as a deckhand. For the next five months he drove speedboats, cooked for the crew -- and surreptitiously filmed the hundreds of dolphins trapped and drowned in the Maria Luisa's nets. The resulting 11-minute video, aired on network news shows, not only triggered a nationwide boycott of tuna in 1988 but also forced canners to change their ways. Last year H.J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafoods announced that they would no longer buy tuna caught in the dolphin-killing nets...
Since his exploits on the Maria Luisa, LaBudde, under the auspices of the Earth Island Institute, has filmed Asian drift-net vessels catching dolphins, turtles and sea birds 2,415 km (1,500 miles) north of Hawaii; investigated the illegal sale of walrus ivory in Alaska; and documented the decline of river dolphins in China's Yangtze River. "At times, I feel like the coroner of the environment," says LaBudde, who hopes that one day a cadre of camera-toting environmental investigators will share his mission...
...enhanced" version of commonwealth can protect the island's economy as well as its Hispanic culture. Judging by polls and street-corner opinion, Romero's statehood campaign today enjoys momentum. When the Popular Democrats staged a rally in Mayaguez, only 75 partisans showed up. Watching the Ponce parade, Luisa Rodriguez, an unemployed mother of seven, said, "I don't know if the North Americans want Puerto Rico, but the Puerto Ricans want a better form of life. If there is no statehood, I will move to Ohio. In Ohio, they treat you well...
Hours before the Santiago rally, the Pontiff visited Santiago's La Bandera slum, where Luisa Rivera, one of 600,000 people who gathered for the occasion, told him, "We want a dignified life without dictatorship." Replied John Paul: "Today has deeply affected my spirit." Earlier in the day the Pontiff had paid a 42-minute visit to Pinochet at La Moneda, the 182-year-old presidential palace. Details of the conversation were sparse, but a Vatican source said the Pope planned to urge Pinochet to forsake violence and allow democratic elections...