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...Romanian government withdrew state subsidies on a wide range of goods, many prices more than doubled overnight. Workers and students took to the streets demanding the government's resignation and shouting slogans against President Ion Iliescu and Prime Minister Petre Roman: "Down with Iliescu!" and "Roman, resign!" Says Nica Leon, leader of the Free Democratic Party: "It is a very bleak economic picture. The shops are nearly empty, people have no money, and there ^ is little heat in apartments. Little has changed...
Such a move would be devastating for the small companies that have been importing $1.4 million worth of the coffee annually. Says Rink Dickinson, president of Boston-based Equal Exchange, which sells Nicaraguan coffee under its Cafe Nica label: "We feel the rug has been arbitrarily pulled out from under us." Sympathetic Congressmen are urging the Administration to drop the idea...
HARVARD'S a capella groups were, for the most part, in fine form. The Din and Tonics provided an exquisite rendition of "Nica's Dream" with soloist Ian Sterling. The Krokodiloes countered with an equally thrilling performance of "Lullaby of Birdland...
...break-ins have occurred at churches and the offices of sanctuary groups, as well as organizations providing legal guidance to Central American refugees in Seattle, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Guadalupe, Ariz., and Cambridge, Mass. Some burglaries are repeat jobs. The Cambridge offices of the New Institute for Central America (NICA), which arranges for Americans to travel to Nicaragua, were ransacked recently for the fourth time. "We think that the Government is behind these acts," said Garrett D. Brown, NICA's associate director, though he had no solid proof to support his theory. The FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service insist...
...that I fell in the giant slalom, but that's O.K." Born in Cairo, raised in Plattsburgh, N.Y., El Reedy, 18, prepared mentally for the Games by following his father's wishes and holing up in a desert cave for 40 days. No one on Bjelašnica had a more intimate knowledge of scorpions. "When I got here, I expected a lot more 'Look at him' stuff from the others. But instead they've all been helping me. 'Look out for this bump.' 'Make sure you get low there...