Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catch the quad since 1897, when, according to many accounts, European Aerialist Lena Jordan first did the triple somersault. The triple is now performed regularly, but it is still an accomplishment reserved for the very best aerialists. Yet Miguel, 17, who represents the fifth generation of a family of Mexican circus performers, was able to do the triple when he was 13. He spun so fast and flew so high that he was urged to go for four...
...Crusader fortress. Kids in bathing suits dangle their legs from the tops of the walls. Pleasure boats bob in the water where the Phoenicians once sailed. Is this Lebanon too? At lunch at the Fishing Club restaurant, one makes cheerful conversation with the owner, Pepe Abed, half Mexican, half Lebanese, who boasts pleasantly about the celebrities who have dined at his place. Producing a huge, elaborate guest book, he points out the autographs of Candice Bergen and David Niven. Below the restaurant, a museum bar displays statuettes snatched from the sea-Phoenician, Hittite, Greek, Roman, Persian-headless, armless relics...
...expected. Despite a sizable showing by the Marxist Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (P.S.U.M.) at an election rally three weeks ago, its candidate, Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, was a distant third, with 5.8% of the vote. Of the seven parties represented in the race, only the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.A.R.M.) and the Social Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party. The one real surprise in the election was that so many people voted. Despite fears of a low voter turnout, approximately 77% of Mexico...
...Mexico has short-term economic problems with difficult but not impossible solutions. We will have to make a great effort of national solidarity to attack inflation and to combat instability in the exchange market. At the same time we must continue attacking the structural problems at the root of Mexican society. It is not the first time that the government finds itself with problems of this nature. Of course, now they are of a larger magnitude. The country is also larger. But Mexico is now in a superior economic position because of its oil reserves, natural resources and skilled people...
...community asset. Skid Row Park is-or at least promises to be. Graffiti on a wall and sprawling drunks are never a pleasant sight. But despite them, youngsters in Skid Row Park use the basketball court, and smaller children play in the sandbox. Most of the neighborhood-illegal Mexican immigrants, destitute transients, the elderly and other community residents-seem to take equal pride in the place. It is their park...