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...even greater menace is the Brazilian pepper, or Schinus terebinthifolius. While visiting Brazil in 1926, Physician and Plant Lover George Stone was attracted by its thick clusters of red berries and brought back seeds for his garden in Punta Gorda, on Florida's southwest Gulf coast. The tree proliferated with the aid of casual gardeners, landscapers and birds (which feasted on the berries and spread seeds across the peninsula...
...jaded joggers can fly from New York's Kennedy Airport to Peking on April 26 and then join in a 10-km run to the Great Wall. Just want to get away from it all? For $1,264, Chile's Ladeco airline periodically flies tourists from Santiago to Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magel...
...week's end 145 had been confirmed dead and nearly 2,000 were injured. According to one government estimate, the cost of the earthquake damage could amount to as much as $2 billion. The government of President Augusto Pinochet, which had been meeting in the southern city of Punta Arenas, hurried back to the capital and announced emergency aid for those most severely affected by the quake. But for many Chileans, who are still suffering from the effects of a severe economic slump two years ago, the tragedy was overwhelming. Asked Manuel Rubilar, a janitor who earns $25 a month...
...Soviet Union, including the removal from the country of some 3,500 Communist military advisers; 2) an end to Nicaraguan support for the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador; 3) curtailment of the country's formidable military arsenal and of any plans to use Nicaragua's Punta Huete airport, still under construction, as a base for advanced military aircraft; 4) fulfillment of Sandinista promises to support political pluralism, meaning reversal of the country's drift toward a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship...
...Reagan Administration has accused the Sandinistas of building a military airfield near Managua that could handle any combat plane in the Soviet arsenal. For two years the Sandinistas have dismissed the charge. But wait. Transportation Minister Carlos Zarruck last week acknowledged that an airport is indeed being constructed at Punta Huete, about 13 miles northeast of the capital. Zarruck insisted that the facility is designed primarily for civilian traffic, though he did not rule out a military role. He said that the project is entirely a Nicaraguan undertaking and that it should be finished in 1986. Administration sources contend that...