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...supervisor of the government's official tally, Dr. Pedro Baraoidan, said in a telephone interview, "I am not in a position to know where he [Marcos] got his figures...
...capital of Seoul for the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The bankers and Finance Ministers welcomed his message as a breakthrough. For the first time the U.S. is willing to throw its weight behind an effort to solve the dangerous debt problem. Said Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, a managing director of the First Boston investment firm: "It is a fundamental step forward for the U.S. to say that the problem is bigger than they thought...
...what sounded like the voice of Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, the daughter of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in San Salvador on Sept. 10. "I'm fine, I'm fine, Papa," the woman said, explaining that she was a prisoner of the Pedro Pablo Castillo Command of the antigovernment Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...
...most Macoristas do not settle permanently in the U.S. Added to the pull of home is the star players' status in San Pedro as demigods who can earn more in one year than their fathers did in a lifetime. To them, the U.S. remains a sort of fabulous offshore branch office. Says Andujar: "I love the United States. Every 15 days when I get paid, I say, 'God bless America!' " Still, he has built a new home in San Pedro, and on the terrace at Tio Miguel, a waterfront restaurant with a newly installed satellite dish to pull...
...leagues, and those who have are often there to help. "I wanted to be just like Rico Carty," says Cleveland Pitcher Ramon Romero. "Maybe someday I'll be someone's hero." Mindful of his own debt, Oakland's Griffin supplies uniforms, bats and balls to a San Pedro sugar-mill team called, appropriately enough, Estrellas de Griffin. Andujar spends much of the off-season coaching teenage players there. Says he: "I could go to the beach and have a good time, but they dream of coming to the United States to play professional baseball. That...