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...doctors from 19 other Latin American, as well as a dozen European and Asian countries. In at least one case, the students were able to apply their training immediately to benefit their homeland. Nine Nicaraguan physicians were enrolled in the course at the time of the earthquake that devastated Managua in 1972. As soon as they completed their training, the university provided $30,000 to help them set up a special relief project to aid the quake victims...
Does Howard Hughes know some secret about the latest thing in resorts? Hiding out in the Bahamas or slumming in Managua, Nicaragua, is one thing. But the island of Jersey? Reports had it that Hughes was eying one or another of two vast medieval manor houses surrounded by oceans of greenery, both priced at near $2.4 million. What was there about the Channel island that could bring Hughes out of seclusion in the ninth floor of London's Inn on the Park hotel? Certainly not the fact that Jersey would charge him very little in the way of taxes...
...speed up again. Seismologists do not know how widespread the newly discovered phenomenon is, but if it is indeed common to all seismically active areas, it may eventually be used to predict the earth's upheavals-including such disasters as the quake last December that destroyed much of Managua, Nicaragua...
Perhaps. But the operative fact now, as Nicaraguan Public Works Minister Cristobal Rugama describes it, is simply that "everyone here loves Managua, especially now that it is a shrine." That apparently goes for General Somoza too. "I'm not moving," he told me late one night. "I built my house according to specifications so that it would stand up in quakes. There's only one crack in my house. Why should I move...
Then there were the endless demands for public appearances that "I just couldn't say no to." Among other charitable projects, Clemente last week led Puerto Rico's efforts to aid earthquake victims in Managua, Nicaragua, a city where he had coached and played with Puerto Rican teams during the offseason. Not satisfied with merely lending his name to the mercy mission, Clemente insisted on going along to Managua to see that some 26 tons of food and $150,000 in relief money were properly distributed...