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...Lima has become a nightmarish sprawl of 6.5 million. The city has grown so fast that suburban slum districts housing 500,000 people are not even included on current maps. Almost 40% of the country's 18 million people are now crowded into the capital. Says Senator Manuel Ulloa Ellas, a close adviser to Belaúnde: "For many of these people, there are no jobs, no services, no education. Everything is falling to pieces...
...that not only the defendants but also the victim, the chief investigator and the district attorney in the case share a Portuguese background. But the damage was undeniable. "It's some kind of prejudice, which isn't on the surface, but it's there," says Manuel Ferreira, editor of the weekly Portuguese Times...
Followers of supply-side theory have compiled a growing list of studies purporting to show that deficits do not raise interest rates. One was done by Manuel Johnson, an Assistant Treasury Secretary. Two other outspoken advocates of the supply-side view are Alan Reynolds, an economic consultant with Polyconomics in Morristown, N.J., and Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration who is now a professor at Georgetown University. Supply-siders contend that the main factor propping up interest rates is the Federal Reserve's tight money policy. They argue that it was the Reserve...
...Flynt, 41, pornographer and Hustler magazine publisher; for 15 months in Terminal Island federal prison for contempt of court; near Los Angeles. Just after he was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail for disrupting two earlier federal court hearings, Flynt began shouting obscenities at Federal Judge Manuel Real and declaring, "I'm crazier than hell! I want a competency hearing." When he yelled, "Give me more!" Judge Real obligingly tacked on six additional months...
...WITH sadness that we note the death of Manuel Carballo, a former Dukakis official and Kennedy School professor, who brought exceptional commitment and ability to both posts. Carballo, who two weeks ago died suddenly of meningitis, had just finished developing his first budget as Massachusetts Secretary of Human Services. The plan, substantially redesigned the way that the office's $7 million budget is distributed, allocating more money to welfare and development programs while streamlining other aspects of the department. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, noting Carballo's work in Human Services, last week called him "one of the best public managers...