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...rest of the book is pure torture. When Mgungu's heiress, Maria Fishburn, blows him off after their wedding--"Why don't we wait until we take our honeymoon?" she says--the cannibal thinks to himself, "I presumed this was the general custom in the United States, or at least in Manhattan." And then he gets into a Rolls Royce and goes to a strip show...
...small family for a day," complains Jose Romero Arana at Managua's sprawling outdoor Eastern Market. "What are we supposed to eat for the rest of the month?" Even some of the revolution's early gains in health care are vanishing. "Medicine is supposed to be free," says Maria Arriaga Castilla, nursing a baby in her arms near the town of Ocotal. "But you have to wait so long to see a doctor, and the right drugs aren't always to be found...
Meanwhile, the bureaucracy grows only more cumbersome. Nicaraguans complain about having to be screened by their local Sandinista defense committee before they can even apply for a driver's license or passport. "We need a visa to leave the country," says Maria Fernandez Bermudez, on the way to visit relatives in Costa Rica. "And then we need permission to return again. Imagine having to get a visa to return to your own country...
...Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Sherry Pierson, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss, William Yusavage...
...Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Sherry Pierson, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss, William Yusavage...