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This year, 200 students from schools in Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and the United States will descend on Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, to play the roles of legislators and diplomats...
Pick up the needle. Drop it on the record. Craze's life is a spinning disc, always changing speeds. Track No. 1: Nicaragua. This is a fast number. "I don't remember much," says Craze, who was born in Managua. "There was a war going on and s___." Track No. 2: Change. When he was three, Craze's parents moved to San Francisco and then to Miami. Track No. 3: Discovery. Craze didn't have much as a kid--not much money, not much direction. But then, when he was 13, his brother brought home a set of turntables...
...colleagues had the honor to witness his unique qualities firsthand last April when he addressed the World Food Program headquarters staff in Rome. It is inspiring to know that such a compassionate and talented individual heads the U.N. family of nations. JUDITH ANNE THIMKE World Food Program Managua...
...Nicaragua alone, where 3,800 were thought dead, much of the landscape looks as barren as the moon. Starving, sallow-skinned children, many suffering cholera from the fetid waters that destroyed their homes, begged for food on the crumbled, mud-slick roads between Managua and the flooded northern sierras...
...MANAGUA, Nicaragua: Hurricane Mitch may have ratcheted up its casualty figures by faking out Central American authorities. "Mitch came from the east, which was where people prepared," says TIME reporter Lorraine Orlandi. "But most of the damage actually occurred on the west coast." The hurricane's behavior was also atypical: "People mostly prepared for hurricane-strength winds passing through," says Orlandi. "Nobody imagined that Mitch would stay in one place for almost a week and dump so much rain -- most of the deaths were caused by flooding and mud slides...