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...something of a shock to see a capacity crowd of 41,948 stream into brand-new Jacobs Field last Wednesday evening to root, root, root for the best team in baseball, the Cleveland Indians. The press box was crowded; Manny Ramirez stood where George Vukovich once stood; and people were grinning like, well, Chief Wahoo. The fanatic with the drum, a computer programmer named John Adams, was still banging away in the back row of the bleachers, but he couldn't be heard through all the crowd noise. "Cleveland," said Indians pitcher Dennis Martinez, "is the baseball place...
What Jobu sees is truly extraordinary: four of the Top 10 batting averages in the American League (Ramirez, Baerga, Lofton and Jim Thome), two certain Hall of Famers (Eddie Murray and Dave Winfield), and a guy so good they just named a candy bar after him--the Albert Belle Bar. If the pitching holds up, the Indians-who had a 6-1/2-game lead on the Kansas City Royals in the A.L. Central as of Friday-should finish first for the first time since...
...gain foreign experience. He will not emigrate, however: ``I love Mexico passionately. We have all the resources here, but they are not properly exploited.'' When Clinton announced the peso rescue package, Mexicali and Calexico rejoiced. ``San Guillermo is a man with vision,'' says a smiling Joaquin Ramirez Chacon about Bill Clinton. Ramirez Chacon employs 400 at his Pepsi bottling plant and sends his 10-year-old daughter to school in Calexico. As he puts it, ``You need us, and we need...
...economic side, Zedillo doesn't have to do anything at all," says Jonathan Heath, a Mexico City consultant. "We've already started a recovery." But of course, Zedillo does have to do something. His biggest task will be to turn his victory into good news for the poor. Ines Ramirez, selling flowers on a Mexico City street corner, says she voted for Zedillo. "He's a bit of a cold fish," she says, "but he was poor when he was young. Let's hope he doesn't forget us now that he's in power...
After a 20-year manhunt that fanned across Europe and the Middle East, one of the world's most wanted terrorists was arrested in Sudan and flown to France. Ilich Ramirez Sanchez -- a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal -- masterminded the kidnapping of 11 OPEC ministers from a Vienna conference hall in 1975. He is also linked to a 1982 Paris bombing that killed one person and wounded 63, and to the fatal shooting of two French counterintelligence agents...