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...agriculture Antonio Gonzalez Chapel has cut off the government's credit line for April-Agro Industries Inc., which is $33 million in debt, and announced that the commonwealth will handle the farm's winter harvest next month. April-Agro has refused to surrender, appealing to Governor Rafael Hernández-Col?...
...Cuban," and local planters refer to April-Agro as "the Israelis." The English-language San Juan Star, in urging the Governor to delay action against the experimental farm, pointed to "a deep-seated resentment against 'outside' farmers changing the way agriculture has been traditionally carried out." Hernández-Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover of April-Agro. If that happens, Demel and his supporters believe, Puerto Rico will lose its best chance of reversing nearly a century of standing in line at someone else's checkout counters...
Government ministers fanned out across Spain and gave warning of dire consequences if the people voted no. Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez appealed to Spanish pride by saying that Spain would have to pull out of the European Community, which it had just joined on Jan. 1, or be a "second-rate" partner. Another official hinted that Barcelona would lose its bid for the 1992 Olympics and that plans for a World's Fair in Seville would be scuttled. González, in a last, powerful address that mentioned the Atlantic Alliance only twice and peace 40 times...
...possible license suspension. The scarcity of accessible toilets also deters many wheelchair users from socializing. In Britain, the cerebral palsy charity Scope found that only 66% of 1,300 clubs, restaurants and other facilities had accessible toilets. When Miguel Angel Fernández goes out in Madrid, he sticks to familiar haunts. "You get used to going to the same cafés, bars and shops," says Fernández, 31, paralyzed from the waist down by a motorcycle accident 11 years ago. "Dozens of others are just impossible. Either the doors are too narrow, there are steps...
...Exit Argentinean police arrested the owner of a nightclub in downtown Buenos Aires after a blaze killed at least 175 and injured more than 700. Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said that four of the disco's six doors had been wired shut, snaring the mostly young clubgoers in what he called "a mortal trap." Fernandez also warned that the death toll was likely to rise. Thousands of people, many in their teens and 20s, had packed into the Cromagnon Republic disco to celebrate the end of the school year. The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros...