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...parents spoke Spanish, and as a youngster he says he was "bothered by prejudice against those with slightly darker skins and Spanish accents." That same prejudice, he says, led to neglect of Central America politically, and now "we have to play catch-up ball...
...Corbusier once observed, New York City appears as landlocked as Moscow. Through a combination of greed and neglect, the cityscape has steadily obscured the drama of ocean, port and rivers. Until last week, there was not one public place on the island of Manhattan where people could sit in sheltered and stimulating surroundings, to eat, drink and enjoy the life of their waterfront...
...Arafat's "singular rule." They also proposed that an emergency committee be formed to take over Fatah's leadership until a general congress could be held. The council turned down these demands but promised to set up a special court to examine cases involving neglect of duty. In a rhetorical concession to the rebels, the council announced its opposition to the Lebanese-Israeli withdrawal agreement and declared that the Arab plan for a Middle East peace settlement, as formulated at last year's Fez summit, should be rejected in favor of a "military option." That...
...limb? No one was ever made wretched in a brothel; there need be nothing angst-forming about the sexual act. Yet. . . when sexual emotion increases to passion, then something starts growing which possesses a life of its own and which, easily though it can be destroyed by ignorance and neglect, will die in agony and go on dying after it is dead...
...Former Presidents Act of 1958, seeking to rectify such instances of national neglect, provided a $25,000 annual pension and $50,000 a year for office and taff, sums that have steadily escalated. Now each ex-President is entitled to a lifetime annual salary equal to that of a Cabinet Secretary (currently $80,100). Widows get $20,000 a year. The retiree also gets $150,000 for a staff during the first 30 months and $96,000 a year thereafter, unlimited nonpolitical postage and a furnished office. The expenses are flexible. "The law says the office must be 'suitably...