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...This referendum will not only affect Puerto Ricans but all Americans, and we feel that it is extremely important that people realize the issues at stake," said Teresita Riera-Carrion '92, president of La Organizacion. "Puerto Rico could become the 51st state overnight, and too many people around here don't even know that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens...
...There is no way of knowing when an uprising is going to happen," says Springston. "But what's happening in Eastern Europe shows that almost overnight the situation can change; what history teaches you is that when you least expect it, expect...
...picture Magubane took last week is a small black-and-white head shot. Informed that Mandela wanted to apply for a passport in case he was called to African National Congress headquarters in Zambia, Magubane obliged by shooting a roll of black-and-white film and having it developed overnight. The next day Mandela's lawyer showed up to take Magubane's photographs to the passport office in Johannesburg...
...most powerful firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties was at the center of a gold-rush culture that bankrolled corporate raiders and often seemed consumed by vanity, ego and greed. Drexel vanished almost overnight last week when its parent company, a victim of the very junk-bond market that Drexel had created, filed for bankruptcy. The firm's legacy is a debt-laden corporate America and a backlash against excess...
Easterners, though, will have to pay to get their hands on hard marks. Even if the notes are traded at three ostmarks for one deutsche mark, the official rate of exchange for foreigners, East Germans will find their savings slashed by two-thirds overnight. The damage will be worse if the exchange rate is closer to the more realistic 10 to 1 offered on the black market. East Germans have a lot to lose; their personal savings total more than 150 billion ostmarks, or some $3,100 a person at the inflated exchange rate of three ostmarks to the deutsche...