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Says Spanish Political Writer Manuel Leguineche: "The Gibraltarians used to have a kind of love-hate feeling toward the Spaniards. Now it's one of hate-hate." Indeed last week eggs, tomatoes and oranges were thrown at the first Spanish vehicle to cross the border, a motorcycle carrying a young man and his girlfriend...
Late last week, however, voters decided to replace their founding father. Price's People's United Party was swept out of office in favor of the United Democratic Party, which won 55% of the popular vote and 21 of the 28 seats in Parliament. U.D.P. Leader Manuel Esquivel, 44, the new Prime Minister, said he will "pursue good relations with the United States" and work for settlement of a territorial dispute with neighboring Guatemala, but his policies are not expected to differ much from those of his predecessor. So lopsided was the vote that Price lost...
...optimistic, if not entirely satisfied. Says Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The Fed has reacted late and it has probably not gone far enough, but I think we can avoid a recession. The economy should rebound." Administration officials share that view. Says Manuel Johnson, the Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy: "There's time to move things back on track...
Most of his quandaries arise from Latin American writers' love of verbal play. In A Manual for Manuel, Cortazar characterizes different types of secret policemen in a string of richly suggestive alliterative words, hormigon, hormigucho, etc. In English, a literal translation (big ant, big clumsy ant) would have been ungainly. Rabassa's solution: dominant, sycophant, miscreant...
...conspirators include Latchinian's brother Jerome, 48; Faiz Sikaffy, 48, a Honduran businessman who claims that the Suazo government has frozen $7.7 million of his assets; Manuel Binker, 48, a Cuban exile who operates auto-body shops in Miami; José Zimmerman, a Vero Beach, Fla., pilot; and Major General José Bueso Rosa, a Honduran military attache in Santiago...